page_title: George S. Kaufman
section_title: Directing and producing
hierarchical_section_title: George S. Kaufman / Career / Theatre / Directing and producing
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Wallace Ford (left) and Broderick Crawford in the original Broadway production of Of Mice and Men, which cited the production for excellence in the theatre Caption reads as follows: Because last November we saw Of Mice and Men, as John Steinbeck had adapted it himself and as George Kaufman had staged it. Because we were galvanized by the stark reality, the truth, and the inevitable forward lunge of what we were seeing. Because Wallace Ford played George simply, out of a deep understanding. Because Broderick Crawford played Lennie, the huge, pathetic moron—the part they said nobody could play—with such quiet skill. Because we went home knowing that we had seen a great story, superbly told.
context_page_description: George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical Of Thee I Sing in 1932, and won again in 1937 for the play You Can't Take It with You. He also won the Tony Award for Best Director in 1951 for the musical Guys and Dolls.
context_section_description: Kaufman directed the original or revival stage productions of many plays and musicals, includingThe Front Page by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht (1928), Of Thee I Sing (1931 and 1952), Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937), My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov (1940), Hollywood Pinafore (1945), The Next Half Hour (1945), Park Avenue (1946, also co-wrote the book), Town House (1948), Bravo! (1948, also co-wrote the script), Metropole (1949), the Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls, for which he won the 1951 Best Director Tony Award, The Enchanted (1950), The Small Hours (1951, also co-wrote the script), Fancy Meeting You Again (1952, also co-wrote the script), The Solid Gold Cadillac (1953, also co-wrote the script), and Romanoff and Juliet by Peter Ustinov (1957).
  Kaufman produced many of his own plays as well as those of other writers. For a short time, approximately from 1940 to circa 1946, Kaufman, with Moss Hart and Max Gordon, owned and operated the Lyceum Theatre.
caption: Of Mice and Men (1937), with Wallace Ford and Broderick Crawford
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