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Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received three Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.
Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959.
His first produced play was Come Blow Your Horn (1961). It took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successes, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965). He won a Tony Award for the latter. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway". From the 1960s to the 1980s he wrote for stage and screen; some of his screenplays were based on his own works for the stage. His style ranged from farce to romantic comedy to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three awards. In 1966, he had four successful productions running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 he became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor.
Most Popular Neil Simon Trailers
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26 May 2001
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the playm
12 November 1972
The overall title for five short sketches by Neil Simon. 1: "The Greasy Diner." The story of a couple who enter a diner, take one look around, then wish they had never entered.
20 June 2000
One of the greatest comedians of early television, Sid Caesar hasn't had his work shown in perennial reruns, so it's especially gratifying to see a collection of his classic sketches released on video, with Caesar himself introducing the material.
07 January 1989
Stage recording of an Italian adaptation of Neil Simon's 'The Star-Spangled Girl'.
14 March 1975
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
14 December 1979
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off.
04 September 1997
A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities.
22 March 1992
Eugene and Stanley Jerome try to break into show biz as comedy writers while their parents' marriage ends.
02 January 1996
Jake is a writer. He is married to Maggie, but his marriage is in trouble. He cannot stop thinking about other women in his life, characters he invents conversations with.
01 January 1999
Neil Simon discusses the writing and making of his film "Murder by Death".
07 May 1955
Live television version of the classic musical.
12 March 1955
A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.
12 May 1971
Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role.
14 May 1993
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
06 January 1996
At the home of Ulla, the girlfriends meet, as usual. This evening, however, pedantic Beatrice needs to move in with Ulla because she has been thrown out by her husband.
14 April 1956
Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels to the East and the court of Kublai Khan who makes him an emissary and sends him on diplomatic missions throughout his empire.
11 June 2002
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema.
05 June 1963
The story of a young man's decision to leave the home of his parents for the bachelor pad of his older brother who leads a swinging '60s lifestyle.
27 November 1977
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
22 December 1971
A pair of 60's hippies fall in love with the girl next door, who is exactly the kind of square that they are fighting against.
27 January 1984
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
26 November 1955
This live TV adaptation of the Broadway musical "Dearest Enemy" from 1925 is based on an American Revolutionary War incident in September 1776 when Mary Lindley Murray, under orders from General George Washington, detained General William Howe and his British troops by serving them cake, wine and conversation in her Kips Bay, Manhattan home long enough for some 4,000 American soldiers, fleeing their loss in the Battle of Brooklyn, to reassemble in Washington Heights and join reinforcements to make a successful counterattack.
01 January 2003
A collection of Ceasar's finest comedy moments.
05 October 2007
Eddie, the 40-year-old confirmed bachelor finally says "I do" to the beautiful and sexy Lila. But during their honeymoon in Mexico, the woman of his dreams turns out to be a total nightmare, and the guy who could never pull the trigger realizes he’s jumped the gun.
04 November 1955
Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when the older man becomes jealous of his melodic skill.
21 January 1956
An original musical, featuring songs from various composers, about an acting troupe seeking artistic acclaim in Paris.
15 January 1955
An American comes to New Orleans to get the help of a governor in catching a pirate, though the pirate in question is actually the governor himself.
23 June 1976
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
19 December 1980
After being falsely accused of robbing a bank, a writer seeks the help of his lawyer ex-wife to clear his name.
08 August 1996
Two aging comedians, who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier, must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
01 January 1997
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
19 March 1995
Willi Clark (Harald Juhnke) and Al Lewis (Wolfgang Spier) were once one of the greatest comedian duos.
23 June 1978
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
23 February 1990
A documentary profile of director/choreographer Bob Fosse. Includes clips from his films and television specials as well as interviews with Fosse, remembrances from his friends, and commentary by Gwen Verdon.
02 April 1999
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
19 March 1978
The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
25 May 1967
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village.
20 March 1982
HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have just gotten married.
25 February 1969
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life.
08 November 1978
A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov.
05 April 1991
Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon.
20 June 2000
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris.
20 June 2000
The Big Daddy of televised comedy sketches, Sid Caesar had millions of Americans holding their sides and howling at his uproarious antics and those of his inspired sidekicks--Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris.
13 November 2012
New interviews with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, footage from the reunion of Caesar's Writers (1996), and sketches from Your Show of Shows (1950) and Caesar's Hour (1954).
28 May 1970
A trip to New York for a job interview turns into a trip to hell for a small town couple.
16 May 1968
In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix's ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.
09 April 1998
Brucey, the son of Oscar, calls his father to invite him to his wedding to Felix's daughter next Sunday in California.
15 September 1996
On one day at an English Hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her Television Series and her ex-husband Sidney shows up to ask her for money for his gay lover.
04 December 2019
This film is an adaptation of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl.
25 March 1988
A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.
12 August 1998
Robert Osborne hosts this TCM original featuring an exclusive interview with the original Odd Couple.
08 September 1966
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
16 September 2006
Brazilian adaptation of the Broadway classic starring Claudia Raia and filmed live in São Paulo
17 December 1972
Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly.
25 March 1983
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
03 December 1987
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza.
19 August 1996
On January 24, 1996, at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles, CA, legendary comic Sid Caesar was reunited with nine of his writers from Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour.
