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When they responded in the affirmative and Kaufman heard the line, "They laughed at me wanting you," he just "shook his head resignedly and said: 'Oh well'." Ira Gershwin, Lyrics on Several Occasions , pp. 258-59, (paper bound Ed.)
Supposedly George S. Kaufman heard an early rehearsal of this song and wondered whether it was, in fact, a love song before the brothers got to the lyric “They laughed at me wanting...
Without exaggerating the philosophical importance of Kaufman and Hart's loveable bunch of screwballs, it is safe to say that You Can't Take It with You repackages, in the congenial...
May 14, 1972 · Why Kaufman accepted what in former days he would have considered an outrageous insult may be credited to one of the few remaining emotions he still felt in the theater: fear. He was afraid to...
You Can’t Take It with You opened in New York in December of 1936 to instant critical and popular acclaim. This depiction of a delightfully eccentric family, the third collaboration by playwrights George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, proved to be their most successful and and longest-running work.
We learned that when an audience does not laugh at a line at which they're supposed to laugh, then the thing to do was to take out that line and get a funnier line. So help me, we didn't know that before.
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Nov 22, 2012 · And it was an advertisement for a quickie course in how to learn to play the piano, and that phrase, 'they all laughed,' was something that stuck in Ira's head.
