Peter Shelley

Neil Simon on Screen

Adaptations and Original Scripts for Film and Television

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Neil Simon is the most successful American playwright on Broadway, and the winner of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement. Many of his plays have been adapted into films and made-for-television movies, and he has written original screenplays and television specials. This book provides a catalogue of Simon's screen work with cast and crew information, synopses, release dates, reviews, awards and DVD availability. Notes on each film cover his narrative subjects and themes as well as adaptation, direction and performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780786471980
• ISBN-10: 0786471980
• Artikelnr.: 40902951

Autorenporträt

Peter Shelley is a playwright, screenwriter and author of several film books. He lives in Gosford, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Film Adaptations
Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Sweet Charity (1969)
Plaza Suite (1971)
Star Spangled Girl (1971)
Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
California Suite (1978)
Chapter Two (1979)
Only When I Laugh (1981)
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Biloxi Blues (1988)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Part Two: Original Screenplays
After the Fox (1966)
The Out of Towners (1970)
Murder by Death (1976)
Bogart Slept Here (not released)
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
The Cheap Detective (1978)
Seems Like Old Times (1980)
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
The Slugger's Wife (1985)
The Marrying Man (1991)
The Odd Couple II (1998)
Part Three: Television Specials and Adaptations
The Trouble with People (1972)
The Good Doctor (1978)
Broadway Bound (1992)
Jake's Women (1996)
London Suite (1996)
The Sunshine Boys (1997)
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001)
The Goodbye Girl (2004)
Appendix: Theatre Credits
Bibliography
Index