Leonard Gershe
Playwright
Funny Face...film released in 1957 in VistaVision Technicolor, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson. Richard Avedon... In this article: Funny Face, Audrey Hepburn, Paris, Leonard Gershe, Kay Thompson, and Fred Astaire |
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Wikipedia | October 03, 2009
Destry (film)
...York at the Imperial Theater on April 23, 1959, and played 472 performances. Produced by David Merrick, the show had a book by Leonard Gershe and music and lyrics by Harold Rome and starred Andy Griffith as Destry and Dolores Gray as Frenchy.
In this article: Destry Rides Again, James Stewart, Max Brand, Mari Blanchard, George Marshall, Audie Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, and Brandy
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Milton Katselas
...year, Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name. He was nominated for a Tony Award for the Broadway production of Leonard Gershe's Butterflies Are Free in 1969, and also directed the 1972 movie version starring Goldie Hawn, Edward...
In this article: Milton Katselas, Edward Albert, Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Academy Award, Private Lives, and Heart failure
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40 Carats (film)
Forty Carats is a 1973 film directed by Milton Katselas, based on the play by Jay Presson Allen. The screenplay was written by Leonard Gershe (who significantly changed the ending) and directed by Milton Katselas. The cast include Liv Ullman,...
In this article: Liv Ullman, Milton Katselas, 40 Carats, Forty Carats, Jay Presson Allen, Binnie Barnes, Golden Globe, and Nancy Walker
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Destry Rides Again (musical)
Destry Rides Again is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Leonard Gershe. It is based on the 1939 classic film of the same name . The show opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on February 23, 1959 and...
In this article: Destry Rides Again, Michael Kidd, Max Brand, Marlene Dietrich, Andy Griffith, Harold Rome, and Dolores Gray
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Alive and Kicking (musical)
...Carmichael, Harold Rome, Sonny Burke, Leo Schumer, and Ray Golden; and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, Ray Golden, Harold J. Rome, Leonard Gershe, Sid Kuller, and Michael Stuart. The revue had a pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in...
In this article: Jack Cole, Alive and Kicking, Gwen Verdon, David Burns, Harold J. Rome, Trademark, and Henry Morgan
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Leonard Gershe
Leonard Gershe (June 10, 1922 - March 9, 2002) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist. Born in New York City, Gershe made his Broadway debut as a lyricist for the 1950 revue Alive and Kicking ''. He wrote the book for...
In this article: Writers Guild of America Award, Funny Face, 40 Carats, Snacks, Academy Award, A Star Is Born, Alive and Kicking, and Judy Garland
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Butterflies Are Free
Butterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe. Loosely based on the life of attorney Harold Krents , the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie.
In this article: Eileen Heckart, Edward Albert, Keir Dullea, Milton Katselas, Blythe Danner, Academy Award, Bleak House, Charles Dickens, and Golden Globe
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SFGate: Entertainment | April 20, 2009
Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene
...Madam," opening Sept. 26, followed by Steve Rhyne and Connie Champagne in a 50th anniversary revival of Harold Rome (songs) and Leonard Gershe's (book) "Destry Rides Again." Porter and Moss Hart's 1935 hit "Jubilee" arrives in time for the...
In this article: Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Grammy, and Irving Berlin
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The Latest From VanityFair.com | May 19, 2008
The Street Where They Lived: Classic VF: vanityfair.com
...of functionaries to fend off stray fans and stalkers. "You know, they're all, like, living in Attica," says the screenwriter Leonard Gershe, 76, who regularly had Christmas dinner at the Stewarts', was a pallbearer at Benny's funeral,...
In this article: Jack Benny, Rosemary Clooney, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Jose Ferrer, Michael Feinstein, James Stewart, and Beverly Hills
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Leonard Gershe (June 10, 1922 - March 9, 2002) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist.
Born in New York City, Gershe made his Broadway debut as a lyricist for the 1950 revue Alive and Kicking. He wrote the book for Harold Rome's musical stage adaptation of Destry Rides Again in 1959, and in 1969 penned his only play, Butterflies Are Free. (Actually, Leonard wrote another play, "Snacks," that was intended for Tony Danza.)
In the 1950s, Gershe wrote ten scripts for the Ann Sothern sitcom Private Secretary. (He also wrote a number of episodes of "The Lucy Show.") His screen credits include Funny Face, 40 Carats, and Butterflies Are Free.
(Despite writing the lyrics for the "Born in a Trunk" sequence from the Judy Garland/James Mason musical "A Star is Born," he was not originally co-credited along with composer/music director/friend Roger Edens due to a contractual issue.)
Gershe died in Beverly Hills, California from complications from a stroke.
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