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Chayefsky, Paddy (1923-1981)
Distinguished playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Paddy (born Sidney) Chayefsky was a major force in the flowering of post-World War II television drama, sympathetica...
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With the birth of television in the late 1940s came a new medium through which writers could reach varied audiences. Paddy Chayefsky recognized the scope of this medium and produced some remarkable ...
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Paddy Chayefsky is one of a handful of American screenwriters who first achieved fame during the golden age of television, producing some of his best work for the live dramatic anthology programs. At ...
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Critical Essay by Jerome Ross
Mr. Chayefsky is the first television dramatist whose work has been given the permanence of the printed book, and deservedly so…. [The six plays collected in �...
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Critical Essay by Robert F. Moss
Chayefsky is like a small, affable tornado…. His characters are famous for their loquacity and it's easy to see where they get it.
Chayefsky began earnin...
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Critical Essay by Brooks Atkinson
Mr. Chayefsky has written ["Middle of the Night"] in a minor key, deliberately holding down the emotion and laying emphasis on the homeliness of the mat...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Shub
Paddy Chayefsky, it has been said many times, is the Clifford Odets of the 1950's, and the differences between the two playwrights largely reflect a shift in popu...
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Critical Essay by Richard Watts, Jr.
The first thing to be said of "Gideon" is that it has distinction and a haunting fascination…. Paddy Chayefsky's dramatization of the O...
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Critical Essay by Allan Lewis
The Passion of Joseph D (1964) well illustrates the problems of the television writer now dedicated to the theatre. The play deals with the Russian Revolution and the rol...
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Chayefsky, Paddy (1923-1981)
Sidney Chayefsky
Critical Essay by Jerome Ross
