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Erle Chennault Galbraith (1951–1984) Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director who penned screwball comedies centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award ...
Krasna based the family in the play on that of Groucho Marx, who was a good friend and occasional collaborator. [1] [2] The play was named in honor of Krasna's first wife, Ruth. [3] The original production of the play was directed by Moss Hart and starred John Dall. It was a big success, running for 680 performances. [4]
Norman Krasna had written the play by June 1950. [2] He was delayed putting it on by working with Jerry Wald at RKO. Joshua Logan says Krasna told him he wrote it with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in mind for the leads. Logan says after he read the play "I was amazed again at the way Norman could take a small misunderstanding, a white lie, and ...
Mimis Kougioumtzis or Mimis Kouyioumtzis — (1936–2003) — Find a Grave — (. wp. g. b. ) Greek actor, director Μίμης Κουγιουμτζής. Find A Grave has the wrong death date, as he gave an interview in December 1998 at [2]. He actually died in 2003: [3]. Lou Krugman — (1914–1992) — Find a Grave — (. wp.
Cool and Lam. First edition dust jacket of The Bigger They Come (1939), the first mystery in the Cool and Lam series. Cool and Lam is a fictional American private detective firm that is the center of a series of thirty detective novels written by Erle Stanley Gardner (creator of "Perry Mason") using the pen name of A. A. Fair.
Time for Elizabeth is a 1948 play written by Norman Krasna and Groucho Marx. [1] Krasna and Marx were good friends and Krasna says writing it took 10–15 years. [2] The original Broadway production was directed by Krasna, and starred Otto Kruger. Opening at the Fulton Theatre, it only ran for eight performances, from September 27 to October 2 ...
Cormoran Strike. Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of the fictional British private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. Seven novels have so far been published in a planned series of ten. [1]
Perry Mason is an American legal drama series originally broadcast on CBS television from September 21, 1957, to May 22, 1966. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner.