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	Sixties sexual farce? Axelrod wrote the script - smh.com.au
		George Axelrod, who has died in Los Angeles aged 81, scored a hit with his play The Seven Year Itch and wrote the screenplays for Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Manchurian Candidate; at one point, he was the highest-paid scriptwriter in Hollywood.
		Axelrod was widely credited with having anticipated the sexual revolution in The Seven-Year Itch, which deals with a happily married man's brief fling with a young neighbour (a role taken in the screen adaptation by Marilyn Monroe).
		George Axelrod was born in 1922 - "a great year for writers and drunks," he claimed - and grew up in New York.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/06/29/1056825276319.html (628 words)

	[Deathwatch] George Axelrod, Playwright, 81
		Axelrod died in his sleep of heart failure, said his daughter, Nina Axelrod.
		Axelrod, who collaborated with Billy Wilder on the script, declared in 1955 "we didn't make a very good picture." The industry censor forbade the sexual innuendo contained in the play and would not allow the two characters to sleep together.
		Axelrod, who still lived in the East then, was advised by Wilder: "You can't sit in New York, see the finished project, then raise hell about it.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2003-June/000430.html (639 words)

	George Axelrod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 New York; June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director.
		During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Axelrod was one of the best paid writers in Hollywood, and he was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
		He is the father of actress Nina Axelrod and stepfather of screenwriter Jonathan Axelrod.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Axelrod (442 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| George Axelrod
		George Axelrod (1922-2003): It was good to know he was out there, taking it easy for all the rest of us
		And the wit here is often Axelrod's, whose work is redolent of the era of cool jazz and the wet bar.
		While Axelrod's work went out of style in the hippie era, there are two films of the 1960s where he bestirred himself from the sun and the vin rosé.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.10.03/axelrod-0328.html (613 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - Playwright George Axelrod Dies at 81
		Axelrod's first big hit was his play "The Seven Year Itch" which he turned into a successful film starring Marilyn Monroe.
		Axelrod was also disappointed in the way his next play "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" was adapted for the screen.
		Axelrod is survived by his three sons, seven grandchildren, and a sister.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---17489,00.html (176 words)

	Lord Love A Duck (DVD) \| The A.V. Club
		Axelrod described it as a cross between Love Finds Andy Hardy and Dr.
		Axelrod's film is full of contradictions and idiosyncrasies: Its brilliant high-school protagonist is played by nearing-40 former child star Roddy McDowall.
		But in its second half, the film undergoes a jarring tonal shift, slowing from a gallop to a crawl and seeming to forget for long stretches that it's a comedy at all.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/7591 (538 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Seven Year Itch
		George Axelrod's Broadway play The Seven Year Itch, which debuted in November 1952, was such a smash that several Hollywood studios were vying over the film rights virtually from the day it opened.
		But such didn't deter Billy Wilder, who teamed with Axelrod to revise the story — as it turned out, the 1955 movie was every bit as successful as its Broadway predecessor.
		Ewell and Monroe play against each other superbly, as he constantly drifts away in his Mittyesque fantasies (seducing The Girl with a Rachmaninoff concerto) while she only responds with prosaic notions (dipping potato chips into champagne is "really wild!") It is one of Monroe's best roles, with precise comic timing wrapped in a Platinum-blonde shell.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/sevenyearitch.q.shtml (440 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Tiffany's writer Axelrod dies
		Axelrod, who was nominated for an Oscar for Breakfast at Tiffany's, died in his sleep of heart failure, his daughter said.
		The Seven Year Itch was first produced as a stage comedy, running on Broadway for three years before being adapted for the screen.
		The satire also began as a play, and Axelrod refused to see the film version because he said "they didn't use my story, my play or my script".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3012480.stm (349 words)

	Lord Love a Duck (1966): Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West - PopMatters Film Review
		George Axelrod's corrosively satiric Lord Love a Duck is one of the most irreverent and cockeyed films of the 1960s.
		Turning from originals to adaptations, Axelrod wrote Blake Edwards' Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), drawn from Truman Capote's novella, and John Frankenheimer's vitriolic thriller, The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
		The scene cuts to his interview with a weary psychiatrist, with whom he records his "statement," that is, the extended flashback that comprises the remainder of the film.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/l/lord-love-a-duck.shtml (1003 words)

	Axelrod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Axelrod or Akselrod is a surname and may refer to:
		George Axelrod (1922–2003), an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director
		Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), an American biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Axelrod (229 words)

	Playbill News: George Axelrod, Seven Year Itch Playwright, Dead at 81
		George Axelrod, the playwright, director and screenwriter who penned the American stage comedy, The Seven Year Itch, which popularized that term and became a film hit, died June 21 in his sleep at home in Los Angeles.
		He had two children with his second wife, Joan: Actress Nina Axelrod and writer and TV producer Jonathan.
		Axelrod also wrote for TV and radio in his varied career.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/80290.html (535 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Tiffany's writer Axelrod dies
		Axelrod (left) with Frank Sinatra, who starred in The Manchurian Candidate
		Scriptwriter George Axelrod, who wrote the movies Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Manchurian Candidate, has died aged 81.
		Axelrod wrote The Seven Year Itch, which became a hit for Monroe
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3012480.stm (349 words)

	Playhouse 19 - Home Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This expression appears to have been invented by American playwright George Axelrod in his play The Seven Year Itch (1952) and further popularized by the film version starring Marilyn Monroe (1955).
		George Axelrod's play was a huge Broadway hit; the married hero's yearning for an affair with "The Girl" slyly undermined Post-War insistence on hearth and home.
		Axelrod wouldn't let the play be filmed until the Broadway run was over.
	www.playhouse19.org.cob-web.org:8888 (195 words)

	Blog of Death: George Axelrod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		George Axelrod, an author of successful plays and movies, died Saturday in Los Angeles.
		Axelrod wrote the play and script for "The Seven Year Itch." After three years on Broadway, the movie version starring Marilyn Monroe became a box office hit.
		Axelrod also penned the screenplays for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "The Manchurian Candidate."
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000026.html (82 words)

	The Seven Year Itch
		The Seven Year Itch, by George Axelrod, is a classic comedy which proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
		Richard Sherman has a wife of seven years, a young son, a demanding job, and all the day-to-day stress he can handle.
		George Axelrod's play tells this story of one man's itch with humor, fantasy...
	www.bctheatre.com /archives/itch.shtml (325 words)

	George Axelrod's "Goodbye Charlie" at Theater Works-8/20/99 to 9/5/99
		George Axelrod's "Goodbye Charlie" at Theater Works-8/20/99 to 9/5/99
		Goodbye Charlie, written by George Axelrod in 1959, plays like one of those typically forgettable parlor comedies of the period, because it is in most every way the perfect example of those dreary comedies.
		Since I've never read the play, which was the basis of the 1991 Ellen Barkin vehicle, Switch, I can only assume that it has been edited a bit for length and content, since most plays of this era are three act monstrosities that would last long into the night if performed intact.
	www.goldfishpublishers.com /GoodbyeCharlie_TW.html (853 words)

	George Axelrod's "Goodbye Charlie" at Mesa Encore Theatre-1/10 to 1/19/03
		George Axelrod's "Goodbye Charlie" at Mesa Encore Theatre-1/10 to 1/19/03
		Guess which way Mesa Encore Theatre has headed in their production of this George Axelrod chestnut.
		Every gag involving breasts is ferreted out and used, even when there's no real textual justification for it.
	www.goldfishpublishers.com /GoodbyeCharlie_MET.html (478 words)

	PAL: George Axelrod (1922-2003)
		"George Axelrod: Irony!" Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1960s.
		Rapf, Joanna E. "Bus Stop as Self-Reflexive Parody: George Axelrod on Its Adaptation." Film and Literature: A Comparative Approach to Adaptation.
		Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 8: American Drama - George Axelrod." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap8/axelrod.html (205 words)

	TIME.com: New Play in Manhattan -- Oct. 24, 1955 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		(by George Axelrod) is a satiric free-for-all on Hollywood and sex by the author of The Seven Year Itch.
		There is a blonde, Marilyn-Monroeish siren, a bland Hollywood agent with satanic powers, an illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second.
		Playwright Axelrod offers sex on the rocks and Hollywood in the raw, coaxes a few new laughs out of agents and Oscars, contrives short vaudevilles on such Hollywood problems as how to treat Boy-Meets-Girl stories.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,891621,00.html (566 words)

	6/27/03: Film Score Friday
		Writer-producer-director George Axelrod died in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles on June 21st.
		The director, George Sidney had a crush on her and wanted to put something extra in the film.
		Ann was supposed to sing the song against a background of newspapers with headlines about Conrad Birdie being drafted (this can be glimpsed in the original trailer) which is why she sings it against a blue screen background in the film.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2003/28_Jun---Film_Score_Friday.asp (2124 words)

	George Axelrod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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	BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote
		Would Paul Varjak (George Peppard) fall for Holly Golightly if she didn't look like Audrey Hepburn?
		That's the question I kept asking myself as I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, the story of a batty woman whose mere presence appears to seduce her downstairs neighbour, a published author.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/breakfastattiffanys.htm (853 words)

	Movie DVD for The Manchurian Candidate
		Both versions also share a brief interview with Frankenheimer, Sinatra, and writer/producer George Axelrod from 1988.
		It’s less of an interview and more of a conversation between the three, mostly made up of Frankenheimer and Axelrod reminding Sinatra of behind the scenes information about the movie.
		The real shame of it is that when it finally gets really interesting, the picture freezes and the “interview” is over.
	www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=592 (1117 words)

	The Manchurian Candidate
		But that you were a pretty solid type yourself, according to Washington with whom they had apparently checked.
		So I figured if they were willing to go to all the trouble to get a comment on you out of George Washington, why, you must be somebody very important indeed.
		And I must say, it was rather sweet of the general with you only a major.
	www.geocities.com /emruf/mc.html (12407 words)

	George Axelrod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When's George Axelrod coming up on UK TV Writer, The Manchurian Candidate
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		Find out more on George Axelrod at the Internet Movie Database
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	The Rep - About The Rep - Rep History - 1954 - 1980
		THREE MEN ON A HORSE John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
		YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Moss Hart and George S. Kaufmann
		MERTON OF THE MOVIES George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
	www.milwaukeerep.com /about/1954_1980.htm (375 words)

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