1. Abe Burrows is best known for co-writing the book to the award-winning musicals Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
19 Facts About Abe Burrows
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Abe Burrows worked in an accounting firm, sold maple syrup, and took a job in his father's wallpaper-and-paint business.
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In 1941, Abe Burrows was made the head writer of Duffy's Tavern, and he later credited that experience with helping him invent the Runyonesque street characters for Guys and Dolls.
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Abe Burrows wrote for Danny Kaye's short-lived mid-1940s radio comedy show, helping head writer Goodman Ace fashion material for Kaye and co-stars Eve Arden and Lionel Stander.
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Abe Burrows quit Duffy's Tavern in 1945 to work at Paramount Pictures but soon returned to radio.
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Such informal performances led to a nightclub act and regular appearances as a performer on CBS radio programs, and to his eventually hosting his own radio program on CBS Radio from 1947 to 1949, a 15-minute weekly comedy that Abe Burrows wrote and directed as well.
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Lambert, according to Abe Burrows, complained that the show wasn't selling much of the toothpaste.
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Abe Burrows wrote and directed the first Broadway musical version of a Jane Austen novel, First Impressions, a rewriting of Pride and Prejudice.
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Abe Burrows thought that critics panned the show because they wondered why a comedy guy was taking on "tired period drama," but the script shows some unusual choices.
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Yet Abe Burrows himself downplayed that role in his memoir, and discussed his fixing of Make a Wish:.
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When Mrs Abe Burrows testified in May 1953, she was more forthright than her husband.
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Abe Burrows admitted to being a Communist Party member from 1940 to 1946.
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Abe Burrows renounced her past, named twenty others as Communists, and was cleared by the committee.
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Abe Burrows guest-starred on CBS's Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town when the television series visited The Bronx in October 1952.
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Abe Burrows was the co-creator, and sometimes writer and director, of the ABC television series OK.
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Abe Burrows produced the television series Abe Burrows' Almanac in 1950, and The Big Party in 1959.
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Abe Burrows wrote the screenplay for the 1956 film The Solid Gold Cadillac.
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Abe Burrows showcased his skills as a composer on albums for Decca and Columbia, including:.
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Abe Burrows died in May 1985 from Alzheimer's disease in his native New York City.