Jerome Chodorov was an American

United States

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 playwright

Playwright

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 and librettist.

Biography

He was born in New York City

New York City

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, and entered journalism in the 1930s. He is best known for his 1940 play My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen (play)

My Sister Eileen is an American comedy stage production, written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, based on autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney...

, its 1942 screen adaptation

My Sister Eileen (1942 film)

My Sister Eileen is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall. The screenplay by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov is based on their 1940 play of the same title, which was inspired by a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney originally published in The New...

, and the musical Wonderful Town

Wonderful Town

Wonderful Town is a musical with a book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein...

, which based on his play. Joseph A. Fields was his frequent collaborator. He was Hollywood blacklist

Hollywood blacklist

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ed during the McCarthy era. His brother, Edward Chodorov

Edward Chodorov

Edward Chodorov , was a Broadway playwright. As well, he was the author or the producer of over 50 motion pictures...

 (1904-1988), was also a playwright, author of the perennial favorite of amateur groups, Kind Lady

Kind Lady

Kind Lady is a 1951 film drama directed by John Sturges. It stars Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Keenan Wynn and Angela Lansbury.The film is remake of the 1935 film of the same name, which starred Aline MacMahon in the title role.-Plot:...

.

Plays

• Schoolhouse on the Lot
• Junior Miss
• The French Touch
• My Sister Eileen
• Anniversary Waltz
• Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley
• The Ponder Heart
• Three Bags Full
• Blithe Spirit
• A Talent for Murder (with Norman Panama
  Norman Panama
  Norman Panama was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades...
  
  ) (Edgar Award
  Edgar Award
  The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  , 1982, Best Play)

Musicals

• Wonderful Town (Tony Award for Best Musical, 1953)
• The Girl in Pink Tights
• I Had a Ball
  I Had a Ball
  I Had a Ball is a musical with a book by Jerome Chodorov and music and lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Stan Freeman.Set on the Coney Island boardwalk, it focuses on matchmaking fortune teller Garside, who finds love with floozy Addie, and recent parolee Stan, who becomes involved with Ferris wheel...
  
  
• The Girl in Pink Tights
  The Girl in Pink Tights
  The Girl in Pink Tights is a musical comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. The musical opened on Broadway on March 5, 1954 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre where it ran for a total of 115 performances until it closed on June...
  
  

Other

• Alive and Kicking
  Alive and Kicking (musical)
  Alive and Kicking is a musical revue with sketches by Ray Golden, I.A.L. Diamond, Henry Morgan, Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Stein, Will Glickman, John Murray, and Michael Stuart; music by Hal Borne, Irma Jurist, Sammy Fain, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Rome, Sonny Burke, Leo Schumer, and Ray Golden; and...
  
  (revue, 1950) - additional material
• The Gazebo - director
• Christine - director
• Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole - 1961

Film

• The Case of the Lucky Legs
  The Case of the Lucky Legs
  The Case of the Lucky Legs is a 1935 mystery film, the third in a series of Perry Mason films starring Warren William as the famed lawyer.-Plot:A woman wins a contest, but has trouble collecting her prize when the promoter turns up dead.-Cast:...
  
  (a 1935 Perry Mason film)
• My Sister Eileen
  My Sister Eileen
  My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a play, a musical, a radio play , two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....
  
  
• Junior Miss
  Junior Miss
  Junior Miss is a collection of semi-autobiographical stories by Sally Benson first published in The New Yorker. Between 1929 and the end of 1941, the prolific Benson published 99 stories in The New Yorker, some under her pseudonym of Esther Evarts...
  
  (1945)
• Happy Anniversary (1959), based on Anniversary Waltz
• Those Endearing Young Charms
• Louisiana Purchase

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