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Martin Gottfried

Born

in New York City, The United States

October 09, 1933

Died

March 06, 2014

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment

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Martin Gottfried,was a New York drama critic for over forty years and the author of five biographies and two books of theater criticism.

Gottfried graduated from Columbia College in New York City in 1959,and attended Columbia Law School for three semesters, next spending one year with U.S. Army Military Intelligence.Gottfried began his writing career as the classical music critic for The Village Voice, doubling as an off-Broadway reviewer for Women's Wear Daily, a position that made him the youngest member of the New York Drama Critics Circle in the organization's history.

Winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and recipient of two Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, Martin Gottfried was the chief dramatic critic for th ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 722 ratings · 85 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	All His Jazz: The Life And Death Of Bob Fosse 3.94 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury 4.06 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobody's Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye 3.63 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthur Miller: His Life And Work 3.68 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sondheim by Martin Gottfried, Martha Swope (Photographer) 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	George Burns 3.58 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broadway Musicals 3.86 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Broadway Musicals: Since 1980 by Martin Gottfried, Martha Swope (Photographer) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jed Harris, the Curse of Genius 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobodys Fool The Lives of Danny Kaye 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I wore only cast-off clothes,' Angela remembers, but as a fact rather than a hardship. 'I didn't buy one single new thing during those first years. It was such a curious dichotomy, having no money at all and yet living in this incredible and generous Perkins household. I was living in abject luxury.”
― Martin Gottfried, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury

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“Anyone Can Whistle, subtitled 'A Wild New Musical,' opened in New York on April 4, 1964, at the Majestic Theater. The reviews were generally negative, and Laurents defended himself with the rationalization that Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune 'didn't like the show because he was a Catholic. The idea that there's no miracles drove him up the wall.' Such a self-protective imagination made Laurents more resilient than Sondheim, who was so discouraged that he talked about quitting the theater entirely. The show closed after nine performances, ultimately becoming a cult musical--meaning that if everyone who says they saw it, actually saw it, it would have run for years.”
― Martin Gottfried, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury

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“If someone else goes on for me,' she told Hearn, 'I feel as if somebody's sleeping with my man.”
― Martin Gottfried, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury

tags: acting, dedication, theater

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