George S Kaufman
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 1929 as The Jazz Singer hits the silver screen and the 'talkies' promise to change movies forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to 'make it big' in Tinsel Town. Their plan? To open a voice academy for the witless stars of silent movies. The only things standing in their way are ditzy starlets and power-hungry movie moguls. Directed by Moss Hart's son, this is top-of-the-bill screwball comedy and Kaufman...
5) Three plays
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
"Presents the scripts of three plays, including "Once in a Lifetime," a satire about how three vaudevillians achieve success in Hollywood; "You Can't Take It With You," telling what happens when Alice, a member of an eccentric family brings home a Wall Street boyfriend; and "The Man Who Came to Dinner," the story of a lecturer who disrupts the lives of a family when he slips on the ice outside their home and outstays his welcome." --
Author
Series
Library of America ; 152
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
If Eugene O'Neill represents the tragic mask of American drama, then George S. Kaufman can easily lay claim to its stimiling counterpart. No other comic dramatist in America has enjoyed more popular success and perennial influence - or been more fortunate in his choice of collaborators, including George and Ira Gershwin, Moss Hart, Edna Ferber, and the Marx Brothers. Here, in the most comprehensive collection of his plays ever assembled, are nine...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1939]
Language
English
Description
An irascible individualist, Sheridan Whiteside, falls on the ice and breaks his hip as he is leaving after dinner and is marooned for six weeks with the Stanleys, a conventional middle-class family. From his wheel chair he plots wondrous events for all who come. He doesn't want to lose his secretary, Maggie, who wants to marry the local editor Bert Jefferson, so he brings glamorous Lorraine into the picture to lure Bert away from Maggie. He receives...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[1929]
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Cavandish family rule over Broadway theatre or believe they do in this play parodying one of the more famous family names of Broadway theatre at the time. Fanny refuses to fade away despite her failing health while her brother Herbert seeks out a backer for a play, his daughter Julie is busy being a famous actress, his son Tony is causing scandles in Hollywood, and possibly worst of all, Julie's daughter Gwen marries an outsider....
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
A psychological portrait of an inequitable marriage, this collaboration between Kaufman and his second wife, actress Leueen MacGrath is the story of a well-heeled Park Avenue publisher and his meek wife, who lives in the shadow of his success. As their marriage progresses, and we see the high life of New York sophisticates, the wife comes into her own and blossoms into her full potential.
