George Furth
出生 : 1932-12-14, Chicago, Illinois, USA
死亡 : 2008-08-11
Himself (archive footage)
1981年初演のブロードウェイミュージカル「メリリー・ウィー・ロール・アロング」。期待とは裏腹に大失敗に終わった本作の関係者が、当時の想いを振り返る。
Book
Triple Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman makes an extraordinary directorial debut with a flawless cast. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, Merrily We Roll Along starts in 1980 and travels backwards in time. This powerful and moving story features some of Sondheim’s most beautiful songs including "Good Thing Going", "Not a Day Goes by" and "Old Friends".
Musical
Company centers on Bobby, a confirmed bachelor, celebrating his 35th birthday with his ten closest friends, who happen to be five couples.
Musical
Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends.
Mr. Merritt
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Musical
The Donmar Warehouse production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's classic musical, starring Adrian Lester and directed by Sam Mendes.
Timon
A brain surgeon tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.
Arthur Skridlow
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
The Patients - Disgusting Looking Patient
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet; and there's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman.
Prof. Eggstrum
国際紛争を秘密裏に解決するため、世界各国から召集された特殊エリート戦士たち。厳しい訓練が日夜おこなわれているのは、人目につかない砂漠に位置する巨大メガフォース機密基地だ。世界平和を乱す暴虐非道な敵の進撃を阻止すべく、英国陸軍の依頼を受けたメガフォース軍団は、精鋭600名を率い、最新科学兵器を駆使して出撃する!!
A.F. Foyt
東海岸から西海岸まで、アメリカ大陸横断5000キロの公道レース「キャノンボール」が開催されることになった。交通法規も制限速度も無視というこのアウトローレースに、各地から腕自慢、車自慢たちが集結する。JJとビクターのコンビは警察をかわすためニセ救急車でエントリー、日本からはハイテク装備満載のスバルが参戦、さらには自分をロジャー・ムーアと言い張るキザな御曹司も現われて、レースは序盤から大混戦になる。
George Cukor
The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Bidwell
Legendary stunt man, Sonny Hooper remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop pain killers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
Briggs
When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Conroy
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
Gerald Lucas
「大空港」から始まった「エアポート」シリーズ第3弾。ハイジャックされたジャンボ機が“魔のバミューダ三角海域”に不時着。次第に沈んでいく機体からの決死の救出劇を描くパニック映画。
Mr. Sukara
Ben and Beatrice Chambers discover that their son Norman is gay and so Ben is intent on setting him right.
Writer
Three middle-aged sisters and their grouchy mother confront issues with men in their lives.
Mr. Pettis
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
Sidney King
Chaos ensues when two former college friends, one a housewife and the other the editor of a hip women's magazine, decide to swap lifestyles between them.
Martin
A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
Van Johnson
法も秩序もない西部のある町。腹黒い知事は、黒人奴隷バートを保安官にして住民の不安を募らせ、彼らを町から追い出すことを企てる。だがバートは監獄の常連ジムと意気投合し、知事が送り込んだ無法者一味に立ち向かうのだった。
Barry Chambers
A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.
Zimmy
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.
Fletcher
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
Self
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
Charlie Flager Jr.
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
Woodcock
19世紀末の西部史に名高い、二人組の強盗ブッチとサンダンスの逃避行を、哀愁とユーモアをこめて描く。列車強盗としてならしたブッチとサンダンス。しかし、近代化に向かう時代に、彼らの生き方はあまりにも旧弊だった。新たな夢を求めて、二人は南米ボリビアへと旅立つが……。
Lyonel Brumley
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Murgatroyd
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.
Sonny Silene
Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia)
Roger
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
Hamner
This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village, which if discovered missing would threaten Japanese/American relations. Doc Willoughby is the ship's petty officer, whose antics are constantly getting him into trouble with his captain. On shore leave, Willoughby falls for a seemingly demure Japanese girl in a kimono shop, who actually turns out to be a Japanese/American nurse in the US Navy, Lt. Tomiko Momoyama. However, it turns out she was betrothed as a child to a traditional Japanese man named Toshi, who fully intends on enforcing tradition. Willoughby divides his time between trying to return the Buddha statue back to the Japanese village it rightfully belongs to, and trying to woo Tomiko from the traditional Japanese man she rightfully belongs to.
Terry
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
Dwayne Whitt
A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.
Howie
A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?
Morgue Attendant
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
Paul Rutherford
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of heartache for her mother and a big source of concern to her brother.
Dr. Phil Osterman
Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital.
Tom
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
Book
Merrily We Roll Along follows Franklin Shepard, a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career in New York and all his friends in order to produce movies in Los Angeles. The musical begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.