With or Without a Song A Memoir |
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| Author:
| Eliscu, Edward |
| Editor:
| Eliscu, David |
| Series title: | The Scarecrow Filmmakers Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8108-4012-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2001 |
| Publisher: | Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $103.00 |
Book Description:
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Edward Eliscu has lived three celebrated lives for much of this century--on Broadway, in Hollywood, and in Connecticut. Known among his peers as the exemplary professional lyricist and to many others as a trenchant and witty playwright, screenwriter, performer, director, essayist, critic, poet, and political polemicist, Eliscu is best known to the general public as the writer of such memorable songs as Without a Song, More Than You Know, Great Day, Carioca, and Flying Down to Rio. As a...
More DescriptionEdward Eliscu has lived three celebrated lives for much of this century--on Broadway, in Hollywood, and in Connecticut. Known among his peers as the exemplary professional lyricist and to many others as a trenchant and witty playwright, screenwriter, performer, director, essayist, critic, poet, and political polemicist, Eliscu is best known to the general public as the writer of such memorable songs as Without a Song, More Than You Know, Great Day, Carioca, and Flying Down to Rio. As a screenwriter he wrote more than twenty films and adapted many prestigious dramatic plays for live television. This memoir is an exciting personal history of an artist with a conscience, his era, and the places he lived.