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LyricistBook Writer 1902–1971

Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.

Also credited on2 works

One Touch of Venus
Two’s Company

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In the literature8 passages

  • 46 Poetry when immediately accessible (as practised by Edgar Guest, Dorothy Parker or Ogden Nash) is generally denigrated and called ‘verse’.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
  • One Touch of Venus, on which the composer collaborated with book author S. J. Perelman and lyricist Ogden Nash, works as a metaphor on several levels, musically as well as textually. The goddess of love is pitted against mere mortals, the rich and famous against the average citizen, city against suburb, new art against traditional art. Th…ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • One Touch of Venus (musical comedy, S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash), New York, Imperial Theatre, 7 October 1943; film adaptation directed by William A. Seiter, released 28 October 1948.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • 77 . The script of the play is published as S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash, One Touch of Venus (Boston: Little, Brown, 1944). See also Penny Colman, Rosie the Riveter: Women Workers on the Home Front in World War II (New York: Crown, 1995).ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • One Touch of Venus. Words by Ogden Nash Music by Kurt Weill © 1944 (Renewed) Ogden Nash Music Publishing and Tro-Hampshire House Publishing Corp. All rights on behalf of Ogden Nash Music Publishing administered by WB Music Corp.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • Harnick had worked on a project involving the Bairds when he assisted Ogden Nash on the television special Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf in 1958. Sometime in 1961 or 1962 he and Bock were brought in to write songs for another new puppet musical, The Man in the Moon , based on an original story by Bil Baird and written by Arthur Burn…ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt

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