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# Arnold Schulman

Writer. Born 11 August 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 4 February 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 11 August 1925, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 4 February 2023
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schulman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4795246, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776068/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19249

## Biography

Arnold Schulman (11 August 1925 – 4 February 2023) was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, songwriter and novelist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended the University of North Carolina, served in the US Navy during the Second World War, and moved to New York in 1946. There he studied playwriting with Robert Anderson at the American Theatre Wing and began writing for television in the early 1950s before transitioning to feature films in 1957.

His screen credits include *Wild Is the Wind* (1957), *A Hole in the Head* (1959, adapted from his own play), *Cimarron* (1960), *Love with the Proper Stranger* (1963), *Goodbye, Columbus* (1969), *Funny Lady* (1975), *A Chorus Line* (1985) and *Tucker: The Man and His Dream* (1988). He also wrote the teleplay for *And the Band Played On* (1993). Schulman received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for *Love with the Proper Stranger* and Best Adapted Screenplay for *Goodbye, Columbus*, as well as a Humanitas Prize for *And the Band Played On*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cimarron* (1960), Fi1m 57, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cimarron.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *And the Band Played On* (1993), Teleplay, Co-Producer
- *Tucker: The Man and His Dream* (1988), Screenplay
- *A Chorus Line* (1985), Screenplay
- *Players* (1979), Executive Producer, Writer
- *Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood* (1976), Producer, Writer
- *Funny Lady* (1975), Story, Screenplay
- *To Find a Man* (1972), Screenplay
- *Goodbye, Columbus* (1969), Screenplay
- *The Night They Raided Minsky's* (1968), Screenplay
- *Love with the Proper Stranger* (1963), Writer
- *Cimarron* (1960), Screenplay — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/cimarron.md)
- *A Hole in the Head* (1959), Writer
- *Wild Is the Wind* (1957), Screenplay
- *Bang the Drum Slowly* (1956), Adaptation
- *Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool* (1954), Screenplay
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1970: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Goodbye, Columbus*
- 1964: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Love with the Proper Stranger*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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