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The two created the successful series after Gardner's character, Archie, premiered on This Is New York, an earlier radio program. Burrows was made the show's head writer in 1941, and he credited his experience with inventing the Runyonesque street characters he fashioned for Guys and Dolls.
May 19, 1985 · His 'Abe Burrows Song Book' was published in 1955. In 1956, he wrote the screenplay for the film, 'The Solid Gold Cadillac.' His autobiography, 'Honest Abe: Is There Really No Business Like...
May 19, 1985 · His ''Abe Burrows Song Book'' was published in 1955. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1956 film ''The Solid Gold Cadillac,'' and his autobiography, ''Honest Abe: Is There Really No Business...
Jan 1, 1980 · In 1980, Abe Burrows published his memoir, Honest, Abe: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?, in which he recalls the meat of his career, including his mentoring of several comedy writers including future M*A*S*H writer Larry Gelbart (who was once a Duffy's Tavern writer), Nat Hiken, Dick Martin and Woody Allen, the latter a distant ...
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May 19, 1985 · Abe Burrows, a bespectacled accountant whose witty love for words led him to a career as a pioneering radio writer and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Broadway musicals, has died at his home...
Guys and Dolls that opened in November 1950 with book and lyrics by Burrows and music by Frank Loesser, was an award-winning production and major hit that ran for years and was revived in London, on Broadway and on school stages around the country.
Abe Burrows (1910-1985) Book, Guys and Dolls. Burrows was a songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist. Born in New York City, he began his writing career in radio as a scriptwriter for Duffy’s Tavern, and later, the Rudy Vallee program.
