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S. J. Perelman

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Book Writer 1904–1979

Sidney Joseph Perelman (February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979) was an American humorist and screenwriter. He is best known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for The New Yorker. He also wrote for several other magazines, including Judge, as well as books, scripts, and screenplays. Perelman received an Academy Award for screenwriting in 1956.

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One Touch of Venus

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  • 18 . Perelman had, however, contributed sketches to other Broadway revues beginning in 1931. Douglas Fowler, S. J. Perelman (Boston: Twayne, 1983).ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.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
  • S. J. Perelman was one of the legendary New Yorker magazine contributors, from the same generation as James Thurber and Dorothy Parker. He was witty and well educated, and his prose was the work of a master craftsman, arch and sarcastic but with an intense love for the absurd-and especially for funny-sounding words. He had written two of…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
  • 1 Book by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash, music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash.ebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt

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