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Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 – October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer, lyricist and screenwriter. Jo Swerling, circa 1940. Early life and early career. Born Joseph Swerling in Berdichev, Ukraine, [ 1] Swerling was one of a number of Jewish refugees from the Tsarist regime.
Jo Swerling was a screenwriter and Broadway lyricist who worked on classics like It's a Wonderful Life and Guys and Dolls. He was born in Ukraine, emigrated to the US, and died in Los Angeles in 1964.
- Writer, Script And Continuity Department
- April 18, 1893
- Jo Swerling
- October 23, 1964
Jo Swerling. Writer: The Pride of the Yankees. Oscar-nominated Hollywood screenwriter Jo Swerling, who also was a Tony Award-winning Broadway writer and lyricist, was born in Berdichev, Ukraine in what was then the Russian Empire.
- April 18, 1893
- October 23, 1964
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Jo Swerling was an American theatre writer, lyricist and screenwriter. Born in Berdichev, Russian Empire, Swerling was a refugee of the Czarist regime who grew up on New York City's lower East Side, where he sold newspapers to help support his family.
SIDELIGHTS: Screenwriter Jo Swerling, who won a Tony Award in 1951 for coauthoring the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, emerged from humble beginnings to sustain a writing career spanning more than three decades.
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, [1] [2] and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner ...
