Axelrod, George

Axelrod, George
▪ 2004

      American playwright and screenwriter (b. June 9, 1922, New York, N.Y.—d. June 21, 2003, Los Angeles, Calif.), created witty, sophisticated, and sometimes satiric works for the stage and screen in the 1950s and '60s and for a time was Hollywood's highest-paid screenwriter. Among his most notable successes were the plays The Seven Year Itch (1952; filmed 1955) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955) and the scripts for the films Bus Stop (1956), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and a black comedy that became a cult favourite, Lord Love a Duck (1966).

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