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The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Man Who Came to Dinner, written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, has been one of the more enduring comedies in...

Play Author

2000

June Moon

Two giants of American humor, Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman, collaborated for this stage comedy (a major success on...

Play Author

1974

Silk Stockings

Silk Stockings, a musical version of the 1939 Greta Garbo film Ninotchka, was adapted for the stage by George S. Kaufman,...

Play Author, Screenwriter

1957

The Solid Gold Cadillac

The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and...

Play Author

1956

Three Sailors and a Girl

Though it isn't obvious at first glance, Three Sailors and a Girl is the fourth screen version of the George S. Kaufman stage...

Play Author

1953

Dancing in the Dark

This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work....

Book Author

1949

Merton of the Movies

The George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Merton of the Movies was previously filmed in 1923 with Glenn Hunter, and in 1932...

Play Author

1947

The Senator Was Indiscreet

Acclaimed playwright George S. Kaufman made his directorial debut with this broad political satire. Senator Melvin G. Ashton...

Director

1947

The Late George Apley

Based on John P. Marquand's Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical novel of the same title, this film stars Ronald Colman as George...

Play Author

1947

The Good Fellows

For reasons unknown, Paramount Pictures decided to dust off the 1926 George S. Kaufman-Herman Mankiewicz stage comedy The...

Play Author, Screenwriter

1943

The Dark Tower

Beneath the gay billows of the big-top seethes a veritable stewpot of illicit romance, false friends, rivalry and murder in...

Play Author

1943

George Washington Slept Here

The Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman Broadway hit George Washington Slept Here has herein been tailored to the unique talents of...

Play Author, Screenwriter

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...

Screenwriter

1942

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The George S. Kaufman/Moss Hart Broadway hit The Man Who Came to Dinner was inspired by the authors' mutual friend, waspish...

Play Author

1941

An Angel from Texas

An Angel from Texas was the fourth of five film versions of the venerable George S. Kaufman stage farce The Butter and Egg...

Play Author

1940

Dulcy

The 1922 George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play Dulcy was based on a delightful character created by columnist Franklin P....

Play Author

1940

No Place to Go

No Place to Go is a remake of the 1932 Chic Sale vehicle The Expert, which in turn was adapted from the George S....

Play Author

1939

You Can't Take It with You

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed...

Play Author

1938

Stage Door

Adapted from the Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman play, Stage Door is a comedic portrait of the theatrical community in New...

Play Author

1937

Dance, Charlie, Dance

This drama is based upon a play by George S. Kaufman, The Butter and Egg Man. It tells the tale of Erwin, a naive yokel who...

Play Author

1937

Blonde Trouble

Johnny Downs takes a break from his usual campus musicals to play a small-town songsmith in Blonde Trouble. Attempting to...

Play Author

1937

First Lady

Based on the 1935 Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, First Lady is not, as might be assumed, the story...

Play Author

1937

A Night at the Opera

Although some purists hold out for Duck Soup (1933), many Marx Brothers fans consider A Night at the Opera the team's best...

Screenwriter

1935

Hello Sweetheart

In this comedy, a sleazy group of gringo grifters try to con a naive farmer into investing his inheritance in their movie....

Play Author

1935

Elmer and Elsie

Elmer and Elsie was adapted from To the Ladies, a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Former movie tough guy...

Play Author

1934

The Man with Two Faces

The Man with Two Faces is based on The Dark Tower, a stage comedy-mystery by Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman....

Play Author

1934

Roman Scandals

Easily the best of Eddie Cantor's gargantuan musical comedies for producer Sam Goldwyn, Roman Scandals begins in the...

Short Story Author

1933

Dinner at Eight

Based on the Broadway hit by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, Dinner at Eight is a near-flawless comedy/drama with an...

Play Author

1933

Make Me a Star

Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...

Play Author

1932

The Tenderfoot

George S. Kaufman's sturdy stage comedy The Butter and Egg Man was the inspiration for no fewer than four Warner Bros. talkie...

Play Author

1932

Once in a Lifetime

Based on the stage comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime is a satire of Hollywood's early-talkie era....

Play Author

1932

The Expert

An elderly gentleman finds himself in a difficult situation when he finds himself faced with becoming a burden on his...

Play Author

1932

June Moon

A well-meaning but dimwitted electrical worker-turned-lyricist Frederick Martin Stevens (Jack Oakie) arrives in New York...

Play Author

1931

The Royal Family of Broadway

Royal Family of Broadway was an abridged but otherwise literal translation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber Broadway hit...

Play Author

1930

Not So Dumb

Previously filmed in 1923, the George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly stage comedy Dulcy was remade as a talkie in 1929 under the...

Play Author

1930

Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers, like The Cocoanuts before is an all-but-literal translation to film of a smash-hit Marx Brothers Broadway...

Play Author

1930

The Cocoanuts

While The Four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo) were appearing nightly on Broadway in Animal Crackers in the...

Composer (Music Score), Play Author

1929

Beggar on Horseback

This satirical film was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Neil McRae (Edward Everett Horton) is a...

Play Author, Screenwriter

1925

Welcome Home

Fred Prouty (Warner Baxter) and his wife, Nettie (Lois Wilson), are living happily until the day that his aged father (Luke...

Play Author

1925

Merton of the Movies

This first of three film versions of the George S. Kaufman/Marc Connelly stage comedy Merton of the Movies stars...

Play Author

1924

To the Ladies

This well-cast light comedy was based on the stage play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Three clerks for the Kincaid...

Play Author

1923

Dulcy

Dulcy--better known as Dulcinea--was the cliché-spouting young bride created by newspaper humorist Franklin Pierce Adams....

Play Author

1923

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