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GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN first collaborated on Minick (1924), based on a Ferber short story. Ferber was the leading female novelist of her day: So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize) and Show Boat (1926). Kaufman was Broadway’s leading comic dramatist: Merton of the Movies (with Marc Connelly, 1923) and The Cocoanuts for the Marx Brothers (1925). In addition to The Royal Family (1927), Kaufman and Ferber collaborated on Dinner at Eight (1931) and Stage Door (1937), both adapted successfully to film, as well as The Land Is Bright (1941) and Bravo! (1948). Kaufman wrote Of Thee I Sing with the Gershwins (1931, Pulitzer Prize) and Once in a Lifetime (1930), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), You Can’t Take It With You (1937, Pulitzer) and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), all with Moss Hart. From Once in a Lifetime onward, Kaufman directed every play he co-wrote in addition to directing the original Guys and Dolls (1950). www.georgeskaufman.com. Ferber’s fiction career continued with Cimarron (1929), Saratoga Trunk (1941), Giant (1952), each dramatized as major films. The Royal Family debuted on Broadway on December 28, 1927 — the day after the premiere of Show Boat, the groundbreaking Kern/Hammerstein musical version of Ferber’s novel.
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Royal Family, The
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
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Dinner at Eight
Vivian Beaumont Theater
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