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- Birth nameMorris Ryskind
- Morrie Ryskind was born on October 20, 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for My Man Godfrey (1936), A Night at the Opera (1935) and Stage Door (1937). He was married to Mary House. He died on August 24, 1985 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpouseMary House(December 19, 1929 - August 24, 1985) (his death, 2 children)
- ChildrenRuth RyskindAllan Ryskind
- ParentsAbraham RyskindIda Edelson
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 696-698. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical "Of Thee I Sing" collaborating with George S. Kaufman, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin.
- He was the son of Russian immigrants. His father operated a cigar store in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
- Was expelled from Columbia University in 1917 (six weeks before his graduation), when he wrote an editorial in the collegiate magazine 'The Jester', in which he called the university's president 'Czar Nicholas'.
- Best known for his collaborations with George S. Kaugman and the Gershwins on Broadway plays, and, from 1935, on Hollywood screenplays.
- If I was called in to doctor a script, I'd go after the weak spot - and that meant, often, a complete rewrite of several scenes.
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