A collection of six television plays by this brilliant writer: Holiday Song, Printer's Measure, The Big Deal, Marty, The Mother, and The Bachelor Party. Includes an introduction and notes for each play by the author.
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Applause Books has done an enormous service in compiling this set of Chayefsky's work, most of which has been long out of print. Two volumes are devoted to his screenplays, including the film classics Marty (1955), The Goddess (1958), Network (1976), and The Hospital (1971). The third volume contains his five stage plays, including the powerful The Passion of Josef D. (1964) and the final volume of his six television plays. Original casts are listed with each work. And the stage-play volume includes a poignant and informative foreword by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Chayefsky's friend for 22 years. Just to have the film and television versions of Marty available for comparison is worth the price of admission for libraries supporting television, film, and drama programs. This set is highly recommended for academic and large public libraries or any library serving a performing arts community.?Susan L. Peters, Emory Univ., Atlanta
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Six Very Different Teleplays,
By Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Television Plays (Paperback)
Here in one volume all the plays that made Paddy Chayefsky a famous man, together with some insights by the author into how they got written. I had no idea, for example, that HOLIDAY SONG ws actually based on a Reader's Digest article about a man who encountered and reunited a husband and wife torn apart by Nazi violence in Europe during the war. Chayefsky says he was given this article to adapt, but basically disregarded every part of it. They didn't call it the "Golden Age" of TV for notbing.
What strikes me is that he was so young when he did his TV work, and yet he was able to write parts for the elderly very well. Will anyone who saw these productions ever forger the old cantor in HOLIDAY SONG, the veteran printer in the classic PRINTER'S MEASURE, or Cathleen Nesbitt quietly breaking your heart in THE MOTHER? It's amazing that a man in his twenties and thirties could see so deeply into the future of his own heart and his own old age--an age which he didn't really live to see.
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New York, Mister Healy, Harry Gerber, Joe Manx, Aunt Theresa, Holiday Song, Uncle Leon, Puerto Rican, Waverly Ballroom, Aunt Catherine, Delbert Mann, Eddie Albert, Louie Miles, Printer's Measure, The Big Deal, Cantor Sternberger, Las Vegas, Missus Fanning, Rabbi Marcus, Atlantic Avenue, Frank Daugherty, Employment Service, Happy Holiday, Mister Zucker, Radio City Music Hall New!
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MONTAGE: Suburban town outside New York-quiet shaded streets, etc. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mister Healy, Harry Gerber, Joe Manx, Aunt Theresa, Holiday Song, Uncle Leon, Puerto Rican, Waverly Ballroom, Aunt Catherine, Delbert Mann, Eddie Albert, Louie Miles, Printer's Measure, The Big Deal, Cantor Sternberger, Las Vegas, Missus Fanning, Rabbi Marcus, Atlantic Avenue, Frank Daugherty, Employment Service, Happy Holiday, Mister Zucker, Radio City Music Hall New!
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