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Kaufman And Co [Hardcover]

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  • Hardcover: 860 pages
  • Publisher: LIBRARY OF AMERICA; First Printing edition (Oct 11 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1931082677
  • ISBN-13: 978-1931082679
  • Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13 x 3 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 581 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #794,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Best of George Kaufman's Broadway Comedies Oct 24 2004
By C. Hutton - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
The Library of America has done another outstanding effort in pulling together nine of George Kaufman's comedy collabrations from Broadway's Golden Era. Excluding "Once In A Lifetime", all of his plays were made into movies by Hollywood (with "You Can't Take It With You" winning the Oscar for Best Picture in 1938).

Since Mr. Kaufman's humor is firmly rooted in the era of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression for these plays, a little historical knowledge of that period goes a long way in enjoying them. The explanatory notes at the conclusion of this collection clarifies the numerous topical references within each play.

This volume is best read one play at a time (usually less than a 100 pages per play) and then the reader can enjoy the film production of the play. The quality of his writing can be seen by the actors/actresses drawn to portray his characters in the movies: James Stewart, Jean Harlow, Kate Hepburn, Frederic March, Betty Davis, Lionel Barrymore and so many more. Mr. Kaufman's comedies are no more dated than the plays by William Shakespeare.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting Collection Feb 14 2005
By KS - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The amazon page currently features Michael Dirda's review of this volume, which basically disses all of the plays except those written with Moss Hart. That review somewhat misses the mark.

There are several good plays here. Certainly the 2 best plays are "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and "You Can't Take It With You". But "Stage Door" and "Dinner at Eight" are not far behind. (Beware the movie versions of these two: they differ substantially from the written plays. Also an earlier review claims there are movies of all the plays, but I'm not aware of a film version of "Once in a Lifetime"). The script of "Animal Cracker" is amazing for how close it is to the movie version... all these years I assumed Groucho made up a lot of his lines, but here they all are, in black and white.

The real clunker here, and it's a surprise, is the Pulitzer Prize Winning "Of Thee I Sing". There's a reason why, even with a script by Kaufman and songs by the Gershwins, this is never revived... it's a stinker through and through.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Broadway's Best July 12 2007
By Robert H. Mchaffey - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
A collection of Kaufman's zingiest plays, written with, among others, Moss Hart, Edna Ferber, Morrie Ryskind, including the first musical book to win a Pulitzer Prize, Of Thee I Sing, and the Marx Brothers hit, Animal Crackers. The only significant omission is the lack of character breakdowns for the plays included, but that's more than made up for by an excellent compendium of biographical and production chronology included at the end of the book. Recommended highly.

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