Word: axelrod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playwright F. Hugh Herbert aims at equaling the smash success of his The Moon Is Blue with A Girl Can Tell, a new comedy about a teen-ager and her mother. George Axelrod, who wrote last season's hit, The Seven-Year Itch, will be back with another comedy called Pffft, which he describes as "the heart-warming chronicle of a happy divorce." Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley is hard at work on a comedy about "sex and laughter" called Satyr's Dance...
...Seven Year Itch (by George Axelrod) bagged a batch of fine reviews on opening night. It possesses a lively popular theme. It is full of humorous, situations. It boasts an engaging leading man. What it lacks, unfortunately, is any real merit as a play...
Author George Axelrod has given Ewell an admittedly tough part, full of long soliloquies which must be kept fresh lest the play become tedious. Ewell plays a junior executive whose seven year marriage is interrupted briefly when his wife and small son vacation to Cohasset...