George S. Kaufman(1889-1961)
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Director
American playwright of acerbic wit. Twice won the Pulitzer Prize, and
is best known for his collaborative authorship of "Once in a Lifetime,"
with Moss Hart (1930); "Of Thee I Sing," with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin (1931);
"Dinner at Eight," with Edna Ferber (1932); "You Can't Take It with You"
and "The Man Who Came to Dinner," again with Hart (1936 and 1939,
respectively) and "The Solid Gold Cadillac," with Howard Teichmann (1953).
(George Gershwin supplied the music for "Of Thee I Sing.")