Arnold Schulman (August 11, 1925 – February 4, 2023) was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, songwriter and novelist. He was a stage actor long associated with the

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and the Actors Studio.

Biography

Born to a

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family in

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, Schulman attended the

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where he took writing courses. He served with the U.S. Navy during

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, and in 1946 came to New York City, where he began to write in earnest. He studied playwriting with Robert Anderson ('' Tea and Sympathy'') in classes at New York's

, scripted for television during the early 1950s, making a transition to Hollywood films in 1957. Schulman died at his

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home on February 4, 2023, at the age of 97.

Awards

Schulman received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay for '' Love with the Proper Stranger'' in 1963 and for Best Adapted Screenplay for '' Goodbye, Columbus'' in 1969. He also received three Writers Guild nominations for Best Screenplay for '' Wild Is the Wind'', ''

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'' and ''Love with the Proper Stranger'', and a Writers Guild award for ''Goodbye, Columbus''. He was also the recipient of a Humanitas Prize award in 1994 for his work on '' And the Band Played On''. Schulman was credited as the screenwriter of ''Players'', although the script was rewritten without his consent, and by contract he wasn't able to take his name off.

Credits

* 1954 '' General Electric Theater'': ''I'm a Fool'' (Teleplay) * 1954 '' Omnibus'': ''Nothing So Monstrous'' (Teleplay) * 1955 '' Kraft Television Theatre'': ''The Beautiful Time'' (Teleplay) * 1956 ''Playwrights '56'': ''Adam and Evening''; ''Lost''; ''The Heart's a Forgotten Hotel'' (Teleplays) * 1957 '' Wild Is the Wind'' (Screenwriter) * 1959 ''

'' (Screenwriter) * 1960 '' Cimarron'' (Screenwriter) * 1963 '' Jennie'' (Book of Broadway musical) * 1963 '' Love with the Proper Stranger'' (Screenwriter) * 1968 '' The Night They Raided Minsky's'' (Screenwriter) * 1969 '' Goodbye, Columbus'' (Screenwriter) * 1972 '' To Find a Man'' (Screenwriter) * 1975 '' Funny Lady'' (Screenwriter/Book Author) * 1976 '' Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood'' (Producer/Screenwriter) * 1979 '' Players'' (Executive Producer/Producer/Screenwriter) * 1985 ''

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'' (Screenwriter) * 1988 '' Tucker: The Man and His Dream'' (Songwriter/Screenwriter) * 1993 '' And the Band Played On'' (Co-producer/Screenwriter)

Bibliography

*Schulman, Arnold. ''Baba''. Viking Press, New York, 1971. (Biography of Schulman's guru Sathya Sai Baba)

References

External links

''The New York Times'': Arnold Schulman
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