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George S. Kaufman
Birthday:
November 16
Birth Name:
George Simon Kaufman
Biography
I'd bet on George [Gershwin] any time in a hundred yard dash to the piano.
I'd bet on George [Gershwin] any time in a hundred yard dash to the piano.
[to George Gershwin] If you play that score one more time before we open, people will think you're doing a revival.
[to George Gershwin] If you play that score one more time before we open, people will think you're doing a revival.
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
Satire is what closes Saturday night.
[advice to a writer who had a spelling problem] I'm not very good at it myself, but the first rule about spelling is that there is only one 'z' in 'is'.
[advice to a writer who had a spelling problem] I'm not very good at it myself, but the first rule about spelling is that there is only one 'z' in 'is'.
[on writing for the Marx Brothers who were given to ad-libbing their dialogue] I may be wrong. But I think I just heard one of the original lines.
[on writing for the Marx Brothers who were given to ad-libbing their dialogue] I may be wrong. But I think I just heard one of the original lines.
(Upon seeing so many billboard ads with an alluring Jane Russell in Le banni (1943)) They ought to call it "A Sale of Two Titties".
(Upon seeing so many billboard ads with an alluring Jane Russell in Le banni (1943)) They ought to call it "A Sale of Two Titties".
I like terra firma -- the more firma, the less terra.
I like terra firma -- the more firma, the less terra.
When a community theater group was caught performing one of Kaufman's plays without permission or payment of royalties, Kaufman threatened to send them to jail for theft. The theater director thought they didn't need to pay royalties because, as he put it, "It's just a small, insignificant, little theater in a small, insignificant, little town." Kaufman's re...
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When a community theater group was caught performing one of Kaufman's plays without permission or payment of royalties, Kaufman threatened to send them to jail for theft. The theater director thought they didn't need to pay royalties because, as he put it, "It's just a small, insignificant, little theater in a small, insignificant, little town." Kaufman's reply: "Then we'll send you all to a small, insignificant, little jail."
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George S. Kaufman
American playwright of acerbic wit. Twice won the Pulitzer Prize, and is best known for his collaborative authorship of "Once in a Lifetime," with Moss Hart (1930); "Of Thee I Sing," with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin (1931); "Dinner at Eight," with Edna Ferber (1932); "You Can't Take It with You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner," again with Hart (1936 and 1939, respectively) and "The Solid Gold Cadillac," with Howard Teichmann (1953). (George Gershwin supplied the music for "Of Thee I Sing.")
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