Also credited on1 work
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In the literature7 passages
- It all began about 2½ months ago, when we did a guest booking for an Actors’ Party at Café Society. Herman Shumlin & Arthur Kober & others were there & they went nuts about us. So since then everything happened. Publicity – all kinds – New Yorker, N.Y. Times, Post, Journal-American , [The New ] Masses , […] [Daily ] Worker , all over. Eve…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- Arthur Kober’s affectionate 1936 comedy Having Wonderful Time (with John Garfield in the role of Chick, played by Jack Cassidy in the musical) dealt with young Jewish New Yorkers seeking romance during their two-week summer vacations in a resort area not unlike the Catskills. The dialect-inflected dialogue gave the intimate play a warm an…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- A Mighty Man Is He by Arthur Kober and George Oppenheimer (the play was produced in summer stock during 1955 at such venues as the Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, Maine, Theatre-by-the-Sea, Matunuck, Rhode Island, and Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Arthur Kober, the humorist and playwright, told me of a Screen Writers' show given in Hollywood during the lavish days of moviemaking. In one sketch a writer calls the august chief executive at his studio to tell him excitedly that he had conceived a plot which he was eager to tell him. An appointment was immediately arranged, and the wri…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- "Wish You Were Here" (1952) was the reconstituting title. Arthur Kober and Joshua Logan wrote the script, from Kober's 1937 comedy "Having Wonderful Time" about a long-vanished institution: the upstate summer camp for Jewish singles from New York City, where the women hoped to snag a husband and the men tried to settle for a date. Though…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
- Music and lyrics by Harold Rome; book by Arthur Kober and Joshua Logan, based on the play Having Wonderful Time by Koberebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.