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Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and actress. She first gained fame in the 1950s for her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols before transitioning her career, regularly breaking the mold as a writer and director of several critically acclaimed films.
Elaine May (born under the name Elaine Iva Berlin) is an American actress, comedian, film director, playwright, and screenwriter from Philadelphia. Her professional career started in the 1950s and is still ongoing. She has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Jun 4, 2024 · Elaine May became famous at twenty-five and rich soon thereafter, but it took her another decade to figure out what to do with her life, by which point she was too far ahead of her...
4 days ago · Elaine May (born April 21, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director who is known for her sardonic wit, her caustic view of human nature, and her uncompromising fearlessness in all her work.
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May 29, 2024 · Elaine May is one of the key architects of American comedy; an alumna of the influential Kennedy-era underground scene in Chicago that gave us the O.G. “Saturday Night Live” cast and...
Jun 1, 2024 · Elaine May, Ahead of Her Time For the brilliant comedian, writer and director, Hollywood success was elusive. A new book offers perspective on the rocky career.
Jan 17, 2022 · Elaine May is known as one of the funniest and wittiest comics of all time, yet two of her directorial projects, “ The Heartbreak Kid ” (1972) and “Mikey and Nicky” (1976), are about as bleak a picture of human relationships as can be imagined. The tagline for “Mikey and Nicky” was actually, “Mikey and Nicky ... don’t expect to like ‘em.”
