At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.
I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
I understand your new play is full of single entendres.
Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.
Satire is what closes on Saturday night.
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
When a community theater group was caught performing one of Kaufman's plays without permission or payment of royalties, Kaufman threatened to send them to jail for theft. The theater director thought they didn't need to pay royalties because, as he put it, "It's just a small, insignificant, little theater in a small, insignificant, little town." Kaufman's reply: "Then we'll send you all to a small, insignificant, little jail."
I like terra firma -- the more firma, the less terra.
Grandfather of actress Beatrice Colen.
His play, Merrily We Roll Along, became an Stephen Sondheim Musical in 2000 and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Musical in 2001.
Father of Anne Kaufman Schneider.
Won Broadway's 1951 Tony Award as Best Director for "Guys and Dolls."
Had a torrid affair with Mary Astor, which was revealed in court during Astor's 1936 divorce trial when she was fighting her husband for custody of their daughter. Her personal diary, which detailed the physical pleasures Kaufman had given her during their affair, was introduced by her husband's lawyers to besmirch her reputation. The resulting scandal only seemed to make her more popular with the public, and likely led to her being cast in her most famous role as the vamp in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Being publicly known as a stud did nothing to hurt Kaufman's reputation, either.
Is portrayed by David Thornton in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) and by Jason Robards in Act One (1963)
He was only the second playwright to win two Pulitzer Prizes, the first being Eugene O'Neill.
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