Sam Levene Celebrity Pre-Owned Autograph Signed Copy The Most Of S.J. Pearlman

Description: Sam Levene Celebrity Pre-Owned Autographed and Signed Copy of THE MOST OF S.J. PEARLMAN; Signed to Broadway & Film Star Sam Levene. Simon & Schuster, New YorkHardcover 19582nd Edition650 pages Surface dirt & scuffs to both front & back covers; corners of covers rubbed; minor cracks on binding. Lacks dust cover. Interior pages slightly toned. View images which are part of our description and condition report. This copy of S.J. Pearlman's Book autographed & signed in black pen in 1958 to American Theatre Hall of Fame & Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee, Sam Levene, the legendary Broadway, Film, TV & radio actor, the year of the publication on the front end endpaper: "For Sam LeveneWho said Paul Muni?Who said Jacob Adler?I said Sam Levene!With Affection [sic] Sid. S. J. Perelman December 8, 1958." A superb collection of Perelman's best stories, highly desirable; an uncommon copy, Signed & Autographed to legendary actor Sam Levene. About Sam LeveneGrammy Hall of Fame & American Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee, Sam Levene was a legendary Broadway, film, radio and TV actor who had a 54 year career appearing in over 100 theatrical stage productions and 50 films. A Tony Award®-nominee for Best Actor in a Play, Levene's Broadway credits include 39 Broadway productions, 33 of which were performances Levene created in the original Broadway productions. A master of farce and comedy, Sam Levene was a consummate dramatic actor who received greater recognition and critical praise for his comedic expertise and stage timing. Best known to theatre audiences for originating the role of Nathan Detroit in the 1950 original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls, Sam Levene had four years of steady employment performing the role of Nathan Detroit over 2000 times in the original Broadway production as well as reprising the role in the first UK and first Las Vegas productions. Synonymous with the role of Nathan Detroit for seven decades, Guys and Dolls book co-author Abe Burrows specifically crafted the role of Nathan Detroit around and for Levene who signed for the project long before Burrows ever wrote a single word of dialogue, a similar break Burrows said he had when he wrote Cactus Flower for Lauren Bacall. In Honest, Abe: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?, Burrows recalled: "I had the sound of their voices in my head. I knew the rhythm of their speech and it helped make the dialogue sharper and more real." Burrows had the advantage of writing dialogue built around Sam Levene's New York Jewish cadences. Sam Levene's legendary roles on Broadway and the UK include: Patsy, a professional if not always successful gambler in 1935 original & longest running Broadway production ever of George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse which had a Broadway run of 835 performances.Gordon Miller, the desperate small-time shoestring producer, in 1937 original Broadway production of Room Service, a farce, directed by George Abbott which ran for 500 performances.Al Lewis, the retired vaudevillian in Neil Simon's 1972 original Broadway production of The Sunshine Boys.Sidney Black, the theatrical producer of a Broadway flop in Moss Hart's original 1948 Broadway production of Light Up The Sky.Horace Vandergelder opposite Ruth Gordon as Dolly Levi in the premiere 1954 UK production of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker.Officer Finkelstein, a Jewish policeman searching for murderer of a Nazi diplomat in Otto Preminger's original 1939 Broadway production of Claire Booth Luce's Margin For Error.Veteran theatre producer Oscar Wolfe in acclaimed 1975 all-star Broadway revival of The Royal Family directed by Ellis Raab in a cast that Clives Barnes said Noel Coward would have called ‘divine’.Businessman Boss Mangan in acclaimed 1959 all-star Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House.Dr. Aldo Meyer, a kindhearted Jewish doctor, in 1961 Broadway production of The Devil's Advocate, for which Levene received a Tony Award® nomination for Best Actor.Max Kane, a theatrical agent with a dud client in 1932 original Broadway production of Dinner at Eight written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.Sam Levene's credits include 50 films with a Hollywood who’s who, including Anthony Quinn: A Dream of Kings (1969); four films with Burt Lancaster: The Killers (1946), Brute Force, (1947), Three Sailors and a Girl (1953), Sweet Smell of Success (1957); Humphrey Bogart: Action in the North Atlantic (1943); two films with Henry Fonda: The Big Street (1942), The Mad Miss Manton (1938); Robert Ryan: Crossfire; Vincente Minnelli: Sing Your Worries Away (1942); two films with Myrna Loy and William Powell as Police Lt. Abrams: After the Thin Man (1936), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941); Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall: Designing Woman (1957); two films with Red Skelton: Whistling in Brooklyn (1943), I Dood It (1943); Al Pacino: ...And Justice for All (1979), Levene's final film role. Sam Levene established himself as one of the great film noir stalwarts with a long list of film noir credits including his riveting and poignant performance as Samuels, the murdered GI, in the 1947 film Crossfire, considered one of RKO’s best film noirs and as Lieutenant Lubinsky in The Killers, considered the Citizen Kane of Noir. Levene's film noir credits include his poignant performance as William Holden's taxi-driving brother-in-law Siggie in the 1939 film Golden Boy, the 1943 film Action in the North Atlantic in which Sam Levene plays the important role of merchant marine seaman, Chips Abraham, fighting the weather and the U-boats opposite Humphrey Bogart; Wayne Greenbaum, the clever ironic City College graduate who was an impassioned Japanese POW in The Purple Heart; Louis Miller, a prisoner who is severely tortured by Hume Cronyn in Brute Force; a newspaper reporter in Elia Kazan's 1947 film Boomerang, the fight manager in the 1947 film Killer McCoy with Mickey Rooney, a psychiatrist who is murdered in Dial 1119, a theatrical agent in the 1957 Sweet Smell of Success. Photographs/Posters of Sam Levene do NOT accompany this lot.

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