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Ira Wallach

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Composer 1913–1995

Ira Wallach (January 22, 1913 – December 2, 1995) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Born in New York City and raised in New Rochelle, Wallach served with the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater of World War II, attaining the rank of sergeant. After briefly attending Cornell University, he went to Palestine and worked in the potash industry. He wrote the novel Muscle Beach and collaborated with Peter Ustinov on the screenplay for Hot Millions. Wallach died of pneumonia. Filmography: Boys' Night Out (1962) The Wheeler Dealers (1963) Don't Make Waves (1967) (based on the 1959 novel Muscle Beach) Hot Millions (1968)

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  • Sketches : Eddie Davis, Coleman Jacoby, Loney Lewis, David Rogers, Arnie Rosen, and Ira Wallachebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • I found I had four scripts. I read them. Each of them had wonderful material that wasn’t in the other scripts. Both the book-writer Ira Wallach and David Baker, they’re both gone. So I decided to see what I could do, and I created a new book. I tried to use everything I think I had learned in forty years.ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
  • Schwerin; Book and Lyrics, Ira Wallach; Music, Doris Peter Harvey; Cosand Choreographed by Don Price; Scenery Eddietheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • (Judith Anderson Theatre) Thursday, Sept. 30-Oct. 17, 1993 (19 performances) Miranda Theatre Co. presents: THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER by Ira Wallach: Director, John Hickok; Sets, Kevin Joseph Roach; Lighting, Scott Griffin; Costumes, Carol Sherry; Stage Manager, Sally Frontman; Press, Peter Cromarty/Michael Hartman CAST: Kim Hunter (Aunt Sal…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1993-94 Season, v. 50 (Willis).txt
  • IRA WALLACH, 83, playwright, died Dec.2, 1995 in NYC following a stroke. His Bdwy and Off-Bdwy plays included Sticks and Stones, Phoenix 55, Sleep We Must, Drink to Me Only, Smiling the Boy Fell Dead and Absence of a Cello. He wrote screenplays and novels. Survived by his wife and a daughter.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt

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