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Michael B Druxman

MICHAEL B DRUXMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Dench Arnold

Michael B. Druxman is a veteran Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include CHeYeNNe WARRIOR with Kelly Preston; DILLINGeR AND CAPONe starring Martin Sheen and F. Murray Abraham; and the DOORWAY with Roy Scheider, which he also directed. He is also a prolific playwright, his one-person play, JOLSON, having had numerous productions around the country. Other produced stage credits include one-person plays about Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Spencer Tracy and Orson Welles. Additionally, Mr. Druxman is the author of thirteen other published books, including several nonfiction works about Hollywood, its movies, and the people who make them (e.g., BASIL RATHBONe: His Life and His Films, MAKe IT AGAIN, SAM: A Survey of Movie Remakes, ONe GOOD FILM DeSeRVeS ANOtheR: A Survey of Movie Sequels, MeRV [Griffin] and the MUSICAL: From Broadway to Hollywood). He has written two novels, NOBODY DROWNS IN MINeRAL LAKe and SHADOW WATCHeR, plus the humorous revisionist history, ONCe UPON A TIMe IN HOLLYWOOD: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker, and FAMILY SeCReT, a non-fiction book co-authored with Warren Hull, which reveals the true facts behind the 1947 murder of mobster Bugsy Siegel in Beverly Hills. An acknowledged Hollywood historian, he has also written television documentaries and has been interviewed for various retrospective featurettes that have accompanied DVD releases of classic films (e.g. the MALTeSe FALCON, etc.). Mr. Druxman is a former Hollywood publicist of 35 years experience who has represented many film and television stars, as well as noted directors, producers and composers. One of his Academy Award campaigns is often mentioned in books dealing with Oscar's history. He has taught various dramatic writing and film appreciation courses in an adult university and is the author of How to Write a Story. . .Any Story: the ART OF STORYTeLLING, which has been used as a text in several colleges. A native of Seattle who graduated from Garfield High School and the University of Washington, Mr. Druxman moved with his wife, SAndy, from Los Angeles to Austin, TX in 2009. His memoir, MY FORTY-FIVe YeARS IN HOLLYWOOD AND HOW I eSCAPeD ALIVe, is published by Bear Manor Media.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Michael B Druxman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Ava And Her Guys         B Movie         Broderick Crawford         Gable         Hail On the Chief         Hollywood Legends, The         Ida, The Last Lupino         Jolson         Lana & Johnny Were Lovers         Last Monsters, The         Lombard         Maurice Chevalier         Nelson and Jeanette         Orson Welles         Sexy Rexy         Tracy         Yvonne De Carlo
Ava And Her Guys

Ava And Her Guys
Ava Gardner is trying to hide from the abusive George C Scott who is stalking her. Efforts to get in touch with the love of her life Frank Sinatra to help her have failed. She looks back on the men in her life

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Drama

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B Movie

B Movie
Love triangle between Franchot Tone, Barbara Payton and Tom Neal

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The Hollywood Legends. Createspace     2014

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Contained in: "The Hollywood Scandels" published by CreateSpace Independent Publing Platform 2015   

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Broderick Crawford

Broderick Crawford
His parents Lester and Helen Broderick were vaudevillians. When vaudeville died Helen went on to appear in Hollywood movies including two Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers musicals. Broderick had minor roles on Broadway before moving to Hollywood. Here again it was lots of minor roles until "All The King's Men" for which he won an Oscar. Then he appeared in the tv series that was to make his name - "Highway Patrol"

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Gable

Synopsis:
Clark Gable looks back on his life

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Monologue play

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Hail On the Chief

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Hollywood Legends, The

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the HOLLYWOOD LeGeNDS is a series of one and two person, two-act plays by Hollywood biographer, historian, screenwriter and playwright Michael B. Druxman that explore the life and times of some of filmdom's most glittering personalities. This is the first time that all ten plays have been incorporated into one volume. From Clara Bow, the 'It' Girl of the silent era, through the birth of the talkies with Al Jolson and Maurice Chevalier, on through the thirties and forties with superstars like Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Carole Lombard, errol Flynn, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson eddy, Basil Rathbone and, finally, Hollywood's boy genius, Orson Welles, these anecdote-filled dramatic pieces present a humorous, often touching portrait of each star and the era in which he/she lived. the plays, many of which have seen several productions, utilize simple costumes and props, and are designed to be staged on a single setting, with shifts in lighting to denote changes in time and place.

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Ten Plays About eleven Fabulous People

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Ida, The Last Lupino

Ida, The Last Lupino
Director and actor Ida Lupino in 1983. Divorced for the third time and living virtually as a hermit looks back on her life

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Jolson

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1946 and they are making the movie "The Jolson Story" - but Al is not wanted. He sits in his dressing room and looks back on his life. His feud with his older brother, four marriages and now when he cannot get work

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Music: various Jolson classics

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One person musical

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Lana & Johnny Were Lovers

Lana & Johnny Were Lovers
about the relationship between screen superstar Lana Turner and mobster Johnny Stompanato.

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The Hollywood Legends. CreateSpace     2015

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Contained in: "The Hollywood Scandels" published by CreateSpace Independent Publing Platform 2015   

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Last Monsters, The

Last Monsters, The
1956 Boris Karloff has left Hollywood for Broadway. Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr and John Carradine are all appearing in a cheapie - "The Black Sleep". Old resentments and insecurities have them arguing and putting the movie behind schedule

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CreateSpace Independent Publing Platform 2016   

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Lombard

Lombard
a one-woman play about Carole Lombard

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Fort Wayne (In) Civic Theatre     31 May 2013

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Maurice Chevalier

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1963 Chevalier has failing health and may not be able to perform again. He sits in his dressing room surveying his life - the early days in French cabaret, Hollywood and Marlene Dietrich

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Music: various Chevalier classics

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Nelson and Jeanette

Nelson and Jeanette
Nelson Eddie and Jeanette Scott made many movies together - but hated the sight of each other

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CreateSpace Independent Publing Platform 2012   

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Orson Welles

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Welles is trying to get finance for a new movie contract - with no success. He looks back on his early years - an alcoholic father, his loneliness as a child, bright young thing on Broadway and "The War of the Worlds" broadcast

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Monologue play

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Sexy Rexy

Sexy Rexy
In the 1940s Rex Harrison's mistress Carole Landis committed suicide. Later his ex-wife Rachel Roberts also died at her own hand

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Contained in: "The Hollywood Scandels" published by CreateSpace Independent Publing Platform 2015   

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Tracy

Tracy
Struggling with ill health during the making of what was to be his last movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He sits alone and looks back on his life. A rough street kid, his disastrous marriage and affairs with Loretta Young and Katherine Hepburn

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1st Produced:
-     2009

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CreateSpace Independent Publing Platform 2011   

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Yvonne De Carlo

Yvonne De Carlo
Probably best known today as Lily Munsteri n the tv series "The Munsters". Yvonne had a long and varied movie career. It is 1972 and she is a crisis crossroads. Should she divorce her husband of eighteen years. She looks back at the events that have led up to this and the movies she appeared in and the many men in her life. "I collect antiques, earrings, old music and men"

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Genre:
Monologue play

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