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George F. Kaufman, Writer
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George S. Kaufman was one of America's leading playwrights for four decades. His partnership with Moss Hart produced the classic comedies Once in a Lifetime, The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It With You (Pulitzer Prize, 1937).
He collaborated with Marc Connelly on Merton of the Movies and Beggar on Horseback, among others; with Edna Ferber on The Royal Family, Stage Door and Dinner at Eight; and with Howard Teichmann on The Solid Gold Cadillac.
Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind provided the books for George and Ira Gershwin's political musicals Let 'Em Eat Cake and Of Thee I Sing which became the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1932.
Besides writing 46 plays, Kaufman was a notable director (1951 Tony Award, Best Director, for the original Broadway production of Guys & Dolls), the NY Times drama critic, a screenwriter, an actor and, in the words of Alexander Woollcott, "the first wit of his time."
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