George S. Kaufman

American playwright of acerbic wit. Twice won the Pulitzer Prize, and is best known for his collaborative authorship of "Once in a Lifetime," with 'Moss Hart' (qv) (1930); "Of Thee I Sing," with 'Morrie Ryskind' (qv) and 'Ira Gershwin' (qv) (1931); "Dinner at Eight," with 'Edna Ferber' (qv) (1932); "You Can't Take It with You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner," again with Hart (1936 and 1939, respectively) and "The Solid Gold Cadillac," with 'Howard Teichmann' (qv) (1953). ('George Gershwin' (qv) supplied the music for "Of Thee I Sing.")::Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>