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George S. Kaufman (1889–1961)

Auteur van You Can't Take It With You

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Kaufman, was born in Pittsburgh, attended law school for two years, failed as a business person, and became a humorist for Franklin P. Adams's column before joining the New York Times, whose drama editor he became in the 1920s. Kaufman was sole author of one long play and two one-act plays, toon meer including the popular The Butter and Egg Man (1926), but he collaborated on more than 25 plays, most importantly with Moss Hart, but also with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, and others, including Ring Lardner and John P. Marquand. These plays range from the hilarious madness of Cocoanuts (1929) and Animal Crackers (1928), two Marx Brothers shows that Kaufman worked on, to the comic pathos of Stage Door (1936) (with Edna Ferber). Commenting on why he did not write true satire, Kaufman said, "Satire is what closes Saturday night." Kaufman, Morris Ryskind, and Ira Gershwin won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Of Thee I Sing (1932) and Kaufman and Hart for You Can't Take It with You (1937). (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van George S. Kaufman

You Can't Take It With You (1936) 495 exemplaren
Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies (2004) 251 exemplaren
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) 234 exemplaren
Stage Door (1936) 84 exemplaren
Six Plays by Kaufman and Hart (1942) 83 exemplaren
A Day at the Races [1937 film] (1937) — Screenplay — 66 exemplaren
Once in a Lifetime (1930) 53 exemplaren
The Royal Family (1927) 50 exemplaren
George Washington Slept Here. (1940) 43 exemplaren
Of Thee I Sing (1931) 43 exemplaren
By George: A Kaufman Collection (1979) 25 exemplaren
A Night at the Opera: Screenplay (1935) 24 exemplaren
Three Comedies (2000) 20 exemplaren
Merton of the Movies (1949) 18 exemplaren
Merrily We Roll Along: A Play (1934) 15 exemplaren
Animal Crackers [libretto] (1928) 14 exemplaren
Dulcy (1921) 11 exemplaren
The American Way (1939) 9 exemplaren
Amicable Parting (1957) 8 exemplaren
Beggar on Horseback (1924) 7 exemplaren
Hollywood Pinafore (1998) 5 exemplaren
Minick (1924) 5 exemplaren
A Night At the Opera / Go West (1982) 5 exemplaren
Old Man Minick (1924) 4 exemplaren
Bravo! Play in Three Acts (1949) 4 exemplaren
The Fabulous Invalid (1938) 4 exemplaren
Of Thee I Sing 1 exemplaar
I'd Rather Be Right 1 exemplaar
Once In A Lifetime 1 exemplaar
For Good Old Nectar 1 exemplaar
Let 'em Eat Cake (1933) 1 exemplaar

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I got this collection of 1930s plays five years ago, in the early stages of my Oscar-watching project, because the middle one of the three was the basis of a very successful film starring Lionel Barrymore. In fact all three of these plays were successfully adapted for the screen.

The scripts are prefaced by a short piece from each of the two authors, gently poking fun at each other and giving a sense of the relationship between two Broadway creators. They certainly seem to have got on with each other better than Gilbert and Sullivan.

The first play, Once in a Lifetime, is about a vaudeville trio, down on their luck because of the invention of talking movies which sucks the audience out of theatre, who go to Hollywood and try to make it big there. The dumb guy of the three ascends to huge cinematic power, and the punchline of the play is that the bad decisions he makes turn out to be very successful.

I thought it was really funny. I don’t always find it easy to read scripts, but here I had no difficulty differentiating the characters with their different voices. I noted that George Kaufman, one of the authors, also played the frustrated playwright Laurence Vail in the first Broadway cast.

The key character is Mary Daniels, the woman in the vaudeville trio, who gets the best lines and serves as the audience viewpoint character on what is happening in Hollywood. In the original Broadway production she was played by Jean Dixon.

The drunk actress Gay Wellington (and another comic turn, the Grand Duchess Olga) were among the cuts made by Riskin as he adapted You Can't Take It With You for the screen. Kirby’s background is much less developed in the play – the whole subplot involving property transactions, and the character of Mr Poppins, are inserted by Riskin into the film. The Vanderhofs have pet snakes rather than a raven. (Though I’m glad to say that the kitten is original.)

The guts of it are all the same, and one can see why the play won a Pulitzer as an uplifting tonic in depressing times. It’s a bit more misogynistic (as I said, two extra female characters who are only there as figures of fun, and Mrs Kirby gets a harder time) and more racist (Donald gets treated worse). There is a hilarious sequence during the Kirbys’ disastrous visit to the Vanderhof household, where Penny gets the Kirbys to play a word association game.

The third play, The Man Who Came to Dinner, is even more overtly a character study than the other two. A famous New York theatre critic slips on an icy patch while visiting Ohio and is immobilised in the home of his reluctant hosts for several weeks. There’s a bit of a comedy of middle-class manners here, but mainly it’s about the monstrous protagonist who is unaware of his own monstrosity.

I Imagine that this is simple to stage, in that the entire play takes place in the Ohio front room. It’s more of a one-joke story than the other two. The play was written for actor and critic Alexander Woolcott, who had behaved with abominable rudeness while visiting Hart’s family home; for some strange reason he bowed out of actually performing as the character based on himself, and it fell to Monty Woolley to do it on both stage and screen, giving his career an immense boost. The film stars him and Bette Davis.… (meer)
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nwhyte | Feb 24, 2024 |
In this LOA edition, 9 comedic plays are introduced here. Some in conjunction with Edna Ferber & some in conjunction with Moss Hart. Some are well known like Animal Crackers while others are lesser known like Stage Door. All of these were presented on Broadway. This volume includes George Kaufman's chronology, notes on the texts & index.
 
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walterhistory | 2 andere besprekingen | Dec 22, 2023 |
Lesser comedy-drama by the team of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, who would have much greater successes with STAGE DOOR, THE ROYAL FAMILY, and DINNER AT EIGHT. The plot, based on Ferber's short story "Old Man Minick," is about an older fellow who comes to live with his son and daughter-in-law and proves to be a terrible disruption in their lives. There are funny scenes and poignant ones, but the play waffles between making the old guy the protagonist or the antagonist, and no one comes off as terribly pleasant. It is amusing at best.… (meer)
 
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jumblejim | Aug 26, 2023 |
The title is very informative. New York's Broadway from the nineteen thirties to the forties had at least one of these plays drawing crowds at any given moment. they are:1934 Merrily We Roll Along (Kaufman and Hart)
1936 You Can't Take It with You (Kaufman and Hart; Pulitzer Prize winner)
1937 I'd Rather Be Right (Kaufman and Hart)
1938 The Fabulous Invalid (Kaufman and Hart)
1939 The American Way (Kaufman and Hart)
1939 The Man Who Came to Dinner (Kaufman and Hart)

This was a Modern Library Anthology, and is a very buy should you find a copy. The only missing play from their collaborations is 1940's George Washington Slept Here.… (meer)
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