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George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe.
George Axelrod (1922-2003) was a prolific and versatile writer, producer and director of stage and screen. He wrote classics such as The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Seven Year Itch.
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The Seven Year Itch is a 1952 three-act play written by George Axelrod. The original Broadway production starred Tom Ewell and Vanessa Brown .
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Jun 22, 2003 · George Axelrod, the writer perhaps best known for his witty examinations of 1950s social mores, most notably in his play “The Seven Year Itch,” died Saturday morning at his home in Los Angeles.
Jun 23, 2003 · George Axelrod, a writer whose sexually frank farces and feverishly witty satires of the 1950's and 60's heralded the more hedonistic and cynical pop-culture sensibility of later...
George Axelrod, the playwright, director and screenwriter who penned the American stage comedy, The Seven Year Itch, which popularized that term and became a film hit, died June 21 in his...
George Axelrod was a writer and producer of classic films such as The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Seven Year Itch. He was born in New York City in 1922, married twice, and died in Los Angeles in 2003.
