Max Shulman

Max Shulman

Max Shulman (March 14, 1919–August 28, 1988) was an American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.

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Biography

Early life and career

Max Shulman's earliest published writing was for Ski-U-Mah, the college humor magazine of the University of Minnesota, in the 1930s.[1][citation needed] His writing often focused on young people, particularly in a collegiate setting. He wrote his first novel, Barefoot Boy With Cheek, a satire on college life, while still a student. His daughter, Martha Rose Shulman, is a cookbook author.[2]

Later career

Shulman's works include the novels Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, which was made into a film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; The Feather Merchants; The Zebra Derby; Sleep till Noon; and Potatoes are Cheaper.

In 1954 he co-wrote (with Robert Paul Smith) the Broadway play The Tender Trap starring Robert Preston, which was later adapted into a movie starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds. He wrote the libretto for the 1968 musical How Now, Dow Jones, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical.

Shulman's collegiate character, Dobie Gillis, was the subject of a series of short stories compiled under the title The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which became the basis for the 1953 movie The Affairs of Dobie Gillis, followed by a CBS television series, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Shulman also wrote the series' theme song. The same year the series began, Shulman published a Dobie Gillis novel, I Was a Teenage Dwarf (1959). After his success with Dobie Gillis, Shulman syndicated a humor column, "On Campus," to over 350 collegiate newspapers at one point.[citation needed]

A later novel, Anyone Got a Match?, satirized both the television and tobacco industries, as well as the South and college football. His last major project was House Calls, which began as a 1978 movie based on one of his stories, and starred Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson; it spun off the 1979-1982 television series of the same name, starring Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave in the leads. Shulman was the head writer.

Also a screenwriter, Shulman was one of the collaborators on a 1954 non-fiction television program, Light's Diamond Jubilee, timed to the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb.

References

  1. ^ Shulman, Max, Max Shulman's Guided Tour of Campus Humor, Hanover House, Garden City, New York, 1955.
  2. ^ Friedman, Roger (March 13, 2002). "Nash May Talk -- Oscars in Last Leg of Voting". Fox News. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47813,00.html. Retrieved June 19, 2010. 

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