Brooks is a Jewish American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. In middle age he became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top ten money makers of the year that they were released. His most well known films include The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Part I and Spaceballs.
Miller was a playwright who authored All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, screenplay for The Misfits. Once married to Marilyn Monroe. He tells the story that Bernard Gimbel, head of Gimbels Dept. Stores, was in the opening nite audience for Salesman. The next day he ordered that no Gimbels employee ever be fired because of age.
Kaufman was the author of You Cant Take it with You, Of Thee I Sing, The Man who Came to Dinner and more. He had often worked with Moss Hart (also Jewish). Although he was not considered to be particularly handsome, he became a national sex symbol for a short time in the 30s when actress Mary Astor was in a nasty divorce case and her letters detailing what a good lover he was become public.
Levin was a Jewish American author, dramatist and songwriter. He was most famous for Rosemarys Baby and The Boys From Brazil.
Shaw was novelist and short story writer and playwright who became famous after the Second World War. His novel, The Young Lions, became a film with Brando starring.
(1961) screenwriter, producer and playwright
