Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apley, and his creator, may be Harvardmen, but this latest of the 1944 season's period pieces can hardly be called memorable. John P. Marquand '14 has collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a good and a very funny play, which, unfortunately, for itself, follows closely in the wake of the smash hit, "I Remember Mama,' and cannot help but suffer decidedly by comparison...
...certain amount of training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, more as a walk-on, more as an ingenue (directed by George Kaufman). She also worked as an usherette, and got a job modeling for Harper's Bazaar...
...LETTERS OF ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT-Edited by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey-Viking...
...between 1897 and 1943 (the year of his death). Most of them reflect only the genial, humorous, enthusiastic side of the man whom the N.Y. Herald Tribune once called "the final arbiter of things literary in the United States." "He wrote angry, cutting, and sometimes cruel letters," say Editors Kaufman & Hennessey, "[but] none of them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little-Womanish prose that led MGM's Howard...
...funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...