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Willie Gilbert

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Book Writer 1916–1980

Willie Gilbert (24 February 1916 – 2 December 1980) was an American author and playwright. Born William Gomberg in Cleveland, Ohio, Gilbert's proclivity for creating gags emerged as the humor writer for the Glenville High School Torch on which he worked alongside future playwright Jerome Lawrence and the creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. After earning a BS in education he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a comedian. There he discovered that his physician, Jack Weinstock, had a skill for writing, and soon the two were contributing sketch comedy to night-club performers including Kaye Ballard and Eileen Barton, and then to the Broadway review Tickets Please. They…

Also credited on4 works

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed... (2011 Revival)
Tickets, Please!
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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In the literature8 passages

  • Sketches : Willie Gilbert, Herb Hecht, Harry Herrmann, Ted Luce, Roger Price, Edmund Rice, Jack Roche, Ted Luce, and Jack Weinstockebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Two unlikely guys, Jack Weinstock, a neurosurgeon with play-writing ambitions, and Willie Gilbert, a legitimate playwright, had written an unproduced show based on the book. The story was weak but tempting. A ruthless imp battles his way to the top of World Wide Wickets, a completely immoral corporation devoted to greed and sex. The best…ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
  • The 1962 Tony Award ceremony for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. From left to right: Ernest H. Martin, Cy Feuer, Robert Morse, Willie Gilbert, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tack Weinstock, Abe Burrows, Elliot Lawrence.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
  • Hot Spot’s book was by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, who had been credited along with Abe Burrows for the libretto of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. But it was common knowledge that Burrows had been responsible for that show’s triumph by taking Weinstock and Gilbert’s nonmusical adaptation of Shepherd Mead’s novel…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, based on the book by Shepherd Meadebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Book, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; Based on book by Shepherd Mead; Music and Lyncs, Frank Loesser; Directed and Choreographed by Joe Davis; Musical Director, Fred Goldnch; Scenery, Jim Stewart; Lighting, Gregg Marnner; Costumes, Audrey Amsdorf; Sound, David Fleisher; Pianist…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt

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