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Marty Information
1,230 words, approx. 4 pages
 Marty is a low-budget 1955 romance film directed by Delbert Mann, based on a teleplay of the same name by Paddy Chayefsky. An enormous sleeper hit, the film enjoyed national and international success, winning the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture and...




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 Variety
Marty.
11/11/2002: 827 words, approx. 3 pages (BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATER; 890 SEATS; $67 TOP) BOSTON A Huntington Theater Co. presentation of a musical in two acts, with book by Rupert Holmes, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams, based on the screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky and on the...
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 The Boston Globe
Marti Leimbach
04/01/1990: 371 words, approx. 1 pages THIS COLUMN, WHICH APPEARS MONTHLY, VISITS PEOPLE IN THEIR PLACES. With a windowful of Hull's blisteringly blue water before her, novelist Marti Leimbach deals with the business end of fame -- she was given a $500,000 advance for Dying Young, her first novel,...
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 The New York Observer
Marty Comma
8/8/2006: 516 words, approx. 2 pages That was in front of the board of elections, in court its far more, the Board of Elections can't consider evidence, outside evidence, they can only look at their own records. So what the Board of Elections did was look at their own records and...
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 The New York Observer
Marty Gets Schooled
8/18/2006: 475 words, approx. 2 pages Dope on the Slope, how we love ye! After the jump, check out Mr./Ms. Dope's Brooklyn Borough Cheerleader Marty Markowitz takedown. Clever, witty and to the point. Smoking WeedSpeaking of weed, what was Borough President Marty Markowitz smoking when he wrote this letter to...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John M. Clum
2,582 words, approx. 9 pages
 "Marty" provided one of the classics of both television and the American film because it captures vividly and touchingly a number of aspects of the American experience. While being about people who are far from glamorous, its mundane characters have a beauty and a dignity that were felt by viewers far from the Bronx. (p. 46) What is most extraordinary about "Marty" is the amount of material Chayefsky can include in less than an hour. We have not only Marty's bourgeoning re...
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Critical Essay by Edouard L. De Laurot
1,333 words, approx. 4 pages
 [By] contrast with the vapidity of routine cinematic fare, Marty appears—at least at a casual glance—as a refreshingly unusual film….
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
321 words, approx. 1 pages
 [Paddy Chayefsky has described his intentions in writing Marty]: to catch the characters "in an untouched moment of life"; to write the dialogue "as if it had been wire-tapped"; to explore that "world of the mundane, the ordinary and the untheatrical."… (p. 31) The film's emphasis is on loneliness in the city: the bored aimlessness of the young men hanging about the bars and street corners, the unhappiness of the widow whose children no longer need her...
Featured Essays
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Marty, A Book Review
827 words, approx. 3 pages
 Reviews the novel Marty, by Paddy Chayefsky. Provides a plot synopsis, detailing major plot points. Provides a brief character discussion of Marty.


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