Michael Stewart

Nacimiento : 1924-08-01, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 1987-09-20

Películas

42nd Street
Musical
Musical filmado en el que Peggy Sawyer, una joven con talento, tiene una oportunidad para convertirse en una estrella en Broadway.
Favorite Son
Writer
A story of family, of dreams deferred, and of a final chance at redemption. Frustrated with his waning baseball career, David returns to his hometown and becomes obsessed with a local lovely, reaching out to her troubled son. When David is rejected, the townsfolk gossip about his relationship with the boy.
Breakout
Executive Producer
A pair of scientists investigate a mysterious death.
Breakout
Writer
A pair of scientists investigate a mysterious death.
Bye Bye Birdie
Writer
In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams of Desperate Housewives. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical (Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version), several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes. The musical revolves around an Elvis Presley-type rocker who's about to join the Army. To mark the occasion, his manager's secretary arranges for him to kiss a random fan goodbye on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bye Bye Birdie earned four Tony awards in 1961, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for its original star, Dick Van Dyke. In addition to Alexander and Williams, ABC's production starred Tyne Daly, George Wendt, Chynna Phillips and Mark Kudisch.
Midnight Edition
Screenplay
After interviewing a convicted killer, a reporter becomes obsessed with his mesmerizing subject. When his life is threatened, he comes to his senses, but it may be too late to save his family.
Eye of the Storm
Writer
At a highway gas station/motel/diner where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them psychotic. When the abusive Gladstone and his young and sexy wife are stranded at the gas station it brings out the worst in everyone.
Atracción diabólica
Novel
Allan Mann, un joven con un brillante futuro en el mundo de las leyes y el deporte, sufre un terrible accidente que lo deja paralizado. Su novia le deja y su madre le atosiga con una enfermera, pero encuentra una solución: la compañía de una mona. El problema surge cuando la primate se vuelve celosa y no soporta que nadie se meta en la relación, al tiempo que el simio le obedece en todo. Tanto que acaba interpretando cuáles son sus más oscuros deseos y los ejecuta. (FILMAFFINITY)
Barnum
Musical
Barnum the musical traces Phineas Taylor Barnum's career from 1835 to 1881 when he joined James A. Bailey to form the circus which was called The Greatest Show on Earth. Barnum is a defender of "the noble art of humbug" with a philosophy, and has a free wheeling ambition to make a fortune. He buys the oldest woman in the world, named Joyce Heath, as a sideshow attraction. Barnum builds a museum of curiosities supported by his wife Charity, who would like him to settle down.
42nd Street
Book
Original Broadway production filmed for Japanese television. Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes and the subsequent 1933 Hollywood film adaptation, the show focuses on the efforts of famed dictatorial Great White Way director Julian Marsh to mount a successful stage production of a musical extravaganza at the height of the Great Depression.
George M!
Writer
Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 starring Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. The premise here is that a small group of modern-day performers have gotten together in a rehearsal studio to celebrate George M. Cohan's life and work. Joel Grey and Bernadette Peters (also from the original cast) and the other cast members are apparently playing themselves, with Austin Pendleton serving as a stage manager/director.
Hello, Dolly!
Book
Cornelius Hackl, dependiente de una tienda de alimentación de Yonkers, marcha a Nueva York con su mejor amigo para pasar un buen rato. Allí no pueden evitar cruzarse con su jefe Horace, que les promete darles una reprimenda si los ve en un restaurante de moda en lugar de estar atendiendo la tienda. A través de Horace, comerciante viudo, conocemos a Dolly Levi, una casamentera de mediana edad -también viuda- que está intentando buscarle una nueva mujer.
Un beso para Birdie
Novel
Cuando Conrad Birdie, estrella del rock e ídolo juvenil, es llamado a filas, todas las adolescentes del país se revolucionan. Además, Albert (Dick van Dyke), el que escribe las canciones de Conrad, se queda sin trabajo. Él y su novia (Janet Leigh) organizan entonces un concurso nacional gracias al que una afortunada alcanzará el sueño de dar el beso de despedida a Conrad en "El Show de Ed Sullivan".