Larry Gelbart

Born on February 25, 1928, in Chicago, Larry Simon Gelbart comes from a family of immigrants. They ended up living in California, where his father, a barber, kept telling his clients that he had a 15-year-old son with great grace. One of them, the actor Danny Thomas , who was doing an important radio show at that time, decided to give the boy a chance, who ended up writing gags for the airwaves, with which important comedians such as Bob Hope and Eddie Cantor made the audience laugh . . From there he became a scriptwriter for television programs such as The Red Buttons Show or Caesar’s Hour . He soon tried his hand at Broadway, but his play The Conquering Heroit had no success.

However, she gained enormous prestige with her film debut, The Mysterious Lady in Black , directed by Blake Edwards , with Kim Novak and Jack Lemmon . The actor defined Gelbart as “one of the greatest comedy writers of the 20th century.” Later he wrote for the big screen His little adventure of him, Jokes with my wife… no , The chastity belt , Pretty, hot and dangerous , My crazy neighbors and Mess in Rio . Although his biggest hit was Tootsie, where he very gracefully reflected the world of television that he knew so well. For this script she became an Oscar finalist, as well as for the script for Oh, God! , a fantastic comedy by Carl Reiner .

Married to Patricia Marshall since 1956, the screenwriter had two children. On stage he triumphed with Golfus de Roma , which was later made into a film. And he did a lot on the small screen, although his biggest success was the series MASH , based on the film directed by Robert Altman , about a military hospital during the Korean War. He wrote 57 episodes and went on to direct six. In addition, he was one of the creators of the sequel, After MASH , which took place in a veterans hospital after the war ended.