IRVING BRECHER

'Irving Brecher' (b. January 17 1914, in New York City, New York) enjoyed early success as a screenwriter for the Marx Brothers; he helped write "At the Circus" in 1939 and "Go West" in 1940. He was also one of the numerous uncredited writers to help out on the screenplay to 1939's "The Wizard of Oz". Some of his other screenplays were "Shadow of the Thin Man" (1941), "Ziegfeld Follies" (1946) and "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963).
He received an Academy Award nomination in 1944 for his screenplay to "Meet Me in St Louis".
His memoir, The Wicked Wit of the West, is scheduled for 2007 publication by Ben Yehuda Press^[1].

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Ben Yehuda Press catalog of forthcoming titles