Passing: Irving Brecher, 94, Comedy-Script Writer
From The New York Times:
By BRUCE WEBER
Published: November 19, 2008
Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville sketches for Milton Berle, jokes for Henny Youngman, comedies for the Marx Brothers, a television series for Jackie Gleason and screenplays for movie musicals including "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "Bye Bye Birdie" died on November 17 in Los Angeles. He was 94.
Within the tribe of Hollywood gag writers, Mr. Brecher (pronounced BRECK-er) was a literary lion, a reflexive offerer of reactive jokes, a relisher of puns, a connoisseur of often topical, arch repartee. He once angered the film producer Daryl Zanuck, telling him the movie he had just made hadn’t been released; it had escaped.
“If I were any drier, I’d be drowning,” he had Groucho Marx saying, stuck in the rain in the 1939 film "At The Circus".
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/movies/19brecher.html?_r=1
By BRUCE WEBER
Published: November 19, 2008
Irving Brecher, who wrote vaudeville sketches for Milton Berle, jokes for Henny Youngman, comedies for the Marx Brothers, a television series for Jackie Gleason and screenplays for movie musicals including "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "Bye Bye Birdie" died on November 17 in Los Angeles. He was 94.
Within the tribe of Hollywood gag writers, Mr. Brecher (pronounced BRECK-er) was a literary lion, a reflexive offerer of reactive jokes, a relisher of puns, a connoisseur of often topical, arch repartee. He once angered the film producer Daryl Zanuck, telling him the movie he had just made hadn’t been released; it had escaped.
“If I were any drier, I’d be drowning,” he had Groucho Marx saying, stuck in the rain in the 1939 film "At The Circus".
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/movies/19brecher.html?_r=1
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