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Garson Kanin THE LIVE WIRE Comedy in 3 Acts First ed 1950 Blacklisted actor DJ
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Item traits
| Category: | |
|---|---|
| Quantity Available: |
Only one in stock, order soon |
| Condition: |
Unspecified by seller, may be new. |
| Binding: |
Hardcover |
| Special Attributes: |
1st Edition |
| Year Printed: |
1951 |
| Origin: |
American |
| Original/Facsimile: |
Original |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Subject: |
Performing Arts |
| Topic: |
Plays, Comedy, Actors, Theater |
| Publisher: |
Dramatist Play Service, Inc. |
| Author: |
Garson Kanin |
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| Posted for sale: |
More than a week ago |
| Item number: |
1077183648 |
Item description
THE LIVE WIRE:
A Comedy In Three Acts
by Garson Kanin
New York: Dramatist Play Service, Inc. (1951).
First edition, first printing.
Film Agency copy with printed "Submitted by William Morris Agency..." bookplate to the front end-paper.
Many of Kanin's plays were adapted to film, though he is best remembered for the George Cukor directed comedy screenplays he co-wrote with his wife, Ruth Gordon; three of which starred Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
Illustrated with a stage-scene design on a black-and-white plate to the rear.
This comedy features a group of young actors who pooled their resources, dreams and hopes together to live in a Quonset hut in the Broadway theater district. They learn to appreciate their shared lives together in spite of a disruptive "live wire" member.
The comedy was presented by Michael Todd at the Playhouse Theater in NYC on August 17, 1950.
It had a sixteen member cast, including Jack Gilford, who was blacklisted shortly after this play, in 1953 after being specifically named a communist sympathizer by choreographer Jerome Robbins, and testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
After McCarthyism had faded, Gilford made a comeback in 1962, co-starring with also blacklisted, Zero Mostel in FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM.
Jack Gilford was a highly acclaimed comedian who is most remembered for his Academy Award-nominated supporting role in the film SAVE THE TIGER with Academy Award-winning Jack Lemmon.
A significant play featuring New York theater actors written by Kanin, a significant film and theater director, and screenwriter and playwright.
Very slight lean, else fine in fresh blue linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a few very short edge tears and a small square yellow shadow to the front panel where a price sticker once resided; original $2.25 price still intact to the front inner flap.
A beautiful book in a beautifully preserved dust jacket.
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