Abe Burrows Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter, Book Author, Play Author
Biography:: Writer Abe Burrows penned many scripts for radio shows and for Broadway. Among his better known plays are How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Cactus Flower. He also wrote the screenplay for Solid Gold Cadillac in 1956. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Cactus Flower

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Irene Hervey, Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston, Rick Lenz, Vito Scotti

Synopsis: Goldie Hawn won an Oscar for her performance as a Greenwich Village free spirit in Cactus Flower. Middle-aged dentist Winston (Walter Matthau) is enjoying an affair with Toni (Goldie Hawn) but doesn't want to be hemmed in by marriage. He prevails upon his non-glamorous assistant Stephanie (Ingrid Bergman Read More

1969
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Robert Morse, Michele Lee, Rudy Vallee, Anthony Teague, Maureen Arthur

Synopsis: Robert Morse recreated his Tony-winning stage role in this 1967 film version of Frank Loesser's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical. A humble window washer at the New York offices of World Wide Wickets, J. Pierpont Finch applies the lessons he's learned from a book called How to Succeed in Read More

1967
Silk Stockings

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, Joseph Buloff

Synopsis: Silk Stockings, a musical version of the 1939 Greta Garbo film Ninotchka, was adapted for the stage by George S. Kaufman, Leueen McGrath (the then-Mrs. Kaufman) and Abe Burrows, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The Broadway production, starring Hildegarde Neff and Don Ameche, ran 478 Read More

1957
The Solid Gold Cadillac

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark, John Williams, Neva Patterson, Hiram Sherman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and film were predicated upon the notion of a humble ten-share stockholder triumphing over a corrupt big-business board of directors, but there was one significant difference. In Read More

1956
Guys and Dolls

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith

Synopsis: This 1955 film began life as two Runyon short stories, the most prominent of which was "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown." This material was fleshed out into a 2-act libretto by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, then set to music by Frank Loesser and directed by George S. Kaufman. Opening late in 1950 Read More

1955