George Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. Born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kaufman added the middle initial to his name to lend it balance and rhythm. He was known as "The Great Collaborator" because he wrote very few plays alone. His most successful solo script was "The Butter and Egg Man" in 1925.

Monty Woolley (August 17, 1888 - May 6, 1963) was an American actor. Born Edgar Montillion Woolley in New York City, Woolley was a professor and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936. He was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercilious sophisticate.

Ann Sheridan (February 21, 1915 - January 21, 1967) was an American film actress. Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was a college student when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Studios. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a Paramount film. She abandoned college to pursue a career in Hollywood. She made her film debut in 1934, aged 19, in the film "Search For Beauty", …

Mary Wickes, born Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser was an American film and television actress. Wickes was born in St. Louis, Missouri of German and Irish Protestant extraction in 1915. She began acting in films in the late 1930s, and was also a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama "Mercury Theatre of the Air". One of her earliest significant film appearances was in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1942), …

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 - January 23, 1943) was a critic and commentator for "The New Yorker magazine", and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in the play "The Man Who Came to Dinner" by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, …

Elisabeth Fraser (January 8, 1920 - May 5, 2005), was a television, film and stage actress, best known for playing brassy blondes. Born Elisabeth Fraser Jonker in Brooklyn, New York, Fraser began her acting career six weeks after graduating high school; she was cast as the ingenue in the Broadway production of "There Shall Be No Night", which won the Pulitzer Prize for the 1940-1941 season. Fraser obtained a contract with Warner Brothers studios.

Julie Halston is an American actress and comedian. Halston's television credits include notable roles in "Sex and the City," where she played the character of "Bitsy von Muffling," "Law & Order," "My So-Called Life" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." She portrayed Tina Carmello on the CBS sitcom "The Class" between September 2006 and March 2007.

Jerry Wald, born Jerome Irving Wald (16 September 1911 - 13 July 1962), was a producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows. Born in Brooklyn, New York, his brother and sons have all been active in the business. Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1940s and 1960s including "Sons and Lovers, The Sound and the Fury, In Love and War, Peyton Place, An Affair to Remember, Two Tickets to Broadway, The Glass Menagerie, …

Dolores Gray (7 June,1924 - 26 June,2002) was a Tony Award winning Broadway actress during the 1940's-1950's. During her successful music career, she sang Marilyn Monroe's part on the Decca records soundtrack album of "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954) (Monroe herself sang on the film's soundtrack, but she was under contract to a different company.) In 1955, …

Ellis Rabb (June 20, 1930 Memphis, TN, USA - January 11, 1998 Memphis, TN, USA) was an American actor and director who in 1959 formed the Association of Producing Artists, a theatre company that brought new works and noteworthy revivals to Broadway and to regional theatres. The APA merged with the Phoenix Theatre in 1964 and as the APA-Phoenix went on to mount Broadway revivals of "Man and Superman, The Show-Off, …

Edward Andrews (October 9, 1914 - March 8, 1985) was an American actor, most familiar today for his role as Howard Baker in "Sixteen Candles". He was born in Griffin, Georgia, the son of a minister. He began acting on stage in 1926 and had progressed to Broadway by 1935. In 1936, Andrews debuted in the world of cinema, in the movie "Rushin' Art". It was not until 1955, however, that he appeared in his second movie.

John Hoyt was an American film, theatre, and television actor. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, the Yale graduate worked as a history instructor, acting teacher and even as a nightclub comedian. Under his birth name (John Hoysradt), Hoyt began his performing career in a nightclub act doing impressions of famous entertainers.

David Burns American Broadway theater and motion picture character actor and singer. Born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City. He made his Broadway debut in "Face the Music" in 1932, Cole Porter's "Nymph Errant" (1936) was his London debut, and he appeared in many comedies and musicals over an almost 50 year career. He won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, …

Leonard Frey (born September 4, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York; died August 24, 1988 in New York) was an American actor. After college, where he studied art with designs on being a painter, he studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner, and decided to pursue a career in theater instead. In 1968, he received critical acclaim for his performance as a bitter, bitchy, …

André DeShields is an American actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and college professor. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, DeShields graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and received his BA degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Arts from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he serves as an Adjunct Professor. DeShield's early Broadway career was less than successful.

Ron Shand (born 3 February 1906, died 8 August 1993) was Australian actor and comedian who worked extensively in theatre, vaudeville and television. Shand started his career in the circus with his parents as a clown, and later performed as a song and dance man in vaudeville, did tent shows and performed comedy. Was in the Tivoli theatre circuit for many years playing in revue and pantomime, …

I'm a sophomore at the Ramapo College of New Jersey, which, in case you didn't know, is in New Jersey - my home sweet home. New Jersey is kind of an odd place to live, because you don't realize how great it is until you spend a year living someplace else (AKA Pennsylvania)... I'm a theatre major, with a concentration in Directing and Stage Management.

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