Neil Simon - Wikipedia. Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1. American playwright, screenwriter and author. He has written more than thirty plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays.

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He has received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer.[2]Simon grew up in New York during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1. Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1. He began writing his own plays beginning with Come Blow Your Horn (1.

Broadway. It was followed by two more successful plays, Barefoot in the Park (1. Watch The Hatton Garden Job Hindi Full Movie. The Odd Couple (1.

Tony Award. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway."[3] During the 1. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered seventeen Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1. New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor.

Early years[edit]Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1. The Bronx, New York, to Jewish parents. His father, Irving Simon, was a garment salesman, and his mother, Mamie (Levy) Simon, was mostly a homemaker.[4] Simon had one older brother by eight years, television writer and comedy teacher Danny Simon. He grew up in Washington Heights, Manhattan during the period of the Great Depression, graduating from De. Witt Clinton High School when he was sixteen, where he was nicknamed "Doc" and described as extremely shy in the school yearbook.[5]: 3. Simon's childhood was difficult and mostly unhappy due to his parents' "tempestuous marriage" and financial hardship caused by the Depression.[3]: 1 He would sometimes block out their arguments by putting a pillow over his ears at night.[6] His father often abandoned the family for months at a time, causing them further financial and emotional hardship.

As a result, Simon and his brother Danny were sometimes forced to live with different relatives, or else their parents took in boarders for some income.[3]: 2. During an interview with writer Lawrence Grobel, Simon stated: "To this day I never really knew what the reason for all the fights and battles were about between the two of them .. She'd hate him and be very angry, but he would come back and she would take him back. Watch Deadpool Download.

She really loved him."[7]: 3. Simon states that among the reasons he became a writer was to fulfill his need to be independent of such emotional family issues, a need he recognized when he was seven or eight: "I'd better start taking care of myself somehow . It made me strong as an independent person.[7]: 3.

To escape difficulties at home he often took refuge in movie theaters, where he especially enjoyed comedies with silent stars like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy. Simon recalls: "I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud."I think part of what made me a comedy writer is the blocking out of some of the really ugly, painful things in my childhood and covering it up with a humorous attitude ..

I was able to forget what was hurting.[3]: 2. Simon attributes these childhood movies for inspiring him to some day write comedy: "I wanted to make a whole audience fall onto the floor, writhing and laughing so hard that some of them pass out."[8]: 1 He appreciated Chaplin's ability to make people laugh and made writing comedy his long- term goal, and also saw it as a way to connect with people. I was never going to be an athlete or a doctor."[7]: 3. He began creating comedy for which he got paid while still in high school, when at the age of fifteen, Simon and his brother created a series of comedy sketches for employees at an annual department store event. And to help develop his writing skill, he often spent three days a week at the library reading books by famous humorists such as Mark Twain, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman and S. J. Perelman.[5]: 2. 18.

Soon after graduating from high school, he signed up with the Army Air Force Reserve at New York University, and was eventually sent to Colorado as a corporal. It was during those years in the Reserve that Simon began writing, starting as a sports editor.

He was assigned to Lowry Air Force Base during 1. University of Denver[1] from 1. Writing career[edit]Television comedy[edit]Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon, including tutelage by radio humourist Goodman Ace when Ace ran a short- lived writing workshop for CBS. They wrote for the radio series The Robert Q. Lewis Show, which led to other writing jobs.

Max Liebman hired the duo for his popular television comedy series Your Show of Shows, for which he earned two Emmy Award nominations. He later wrote scripts for The Phil Silvers Show; the episodes were broadcast during 1.

Simon credits these two latter writing jobs for their importance to his career, stating that "between the two of them, I spent five years and learned more about what I was eventually going to do than in any other previous experience."[7]: 3. He adds, "I knew when I walked into Your Show of Shows, that this was the most talented group of writers that up until that time had ever been assembled together."[2] Simon describes a typical writing session with the show: [9]There were about seven writers, plus Sid, Carl Reiner, and Howie Morris.. Mel Brooks and maybe Woody Allen would write one of the other sketches .. It was probably the most enjoyable time I ever had in writing with other people.[7]: 3.

Simon incorporated some of their experiences into his play Laughter on the 2. Floor (1. 99. 3). The play won him two Emmy Award nominations. The first Broadway show Simon wrote was Catch a Star! Danny.[1. 0][1. 1]Playwright[edit]During 1. Simon's first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn, ran for 6. Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Simon took three years to write that first play, partly because he was also working on writing television scripts at the same time. He rewrote the play at least twenty times from beginning to end: [7]: 3. It was the lack of belief in myself. I said, 'This isn't good enough. It's not right. . It was the equivalent of three years of college."[7]: 3. That play, besides being a "monumental effort" for Simon, was a turning point in his career: "The theater and I discovered each other."[1.

After Barefoot in the Park (1. The Odd Couple (1. Tony Award, he became a national celebrity and was considered "the hottest new playwright on Broadway", writes Susan Koprince in her book on Simon.[3]: 3 Those successful productions were followed by others, including The Good Doctor, God's Favorite, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, Jake's Women, The Goodbye Girl and Laughter on the 2. Floor. His subjects ranged from serious to romantic comedy to more serious drama and less humor. Overall, he has garnered seventeen Tony nominations and won three.

During 1. 96. 6, Simon had four shows playing at Broadway theaters at the same time: Sweet Charity, The Star- Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park. His professional association with producer Emanuel Azenberg began with The Sunshine Boys during 1. The Good Doctor, God's Favorite, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, Jake's Women, The Goodbye Girl and Laughter on the 2. Floor, among others.