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Arthur Sheekman (February 5, 1901 – January 12, 1978) was an American theater and movie critic, columnist, playwright, and editor—but best known for his writing for the screen. His specialty was light comedy.
Ada is a 1961 American political drama film produced by Avon Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Daniel Mann and produced by Lawrence Weingarten, with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman and William Driskill based on the novel Ada Dallas by Wirt Williams .
Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel is a situation comedy radio show starring two of the Marx Brothers, Groucho and Chico, and written primarily by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. The series was originally broadcast in the United States on the National Broadcasting Company 's Blue Network , beginning on November 28, 1932, and ending on May 22, 1933.
Jan 14, 1978 · Arthur Sheekman, a writer, adapter and co‐writer of more than 25 film comedies and musicals, died Thursday at the Berkshire Sanitarium in Santa Monica, Calif., where he had been ill with...
Jan 3, 2019 · This is real comedy courtesy of director Leo McCarey, the credited screenwriters Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin and four Marx brothers, with invaluable support from Margaret Dumont, Edward Kennedy, Louis Calhern and Raquel Torres.
Oct 2, 2019 · Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin threw in extra dialog and Groucho also adlibbed. So it is difficult to know who exactly came up with the monologue.
With a script by comedy specialist Arthur Sheekman and television writer William Driskill and a questionable supporting performance by British actor Wilfrid Hyde-White, whose Southern accent kept slipping, Ada was uneven at best.
