Michael Stewart

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

Morte : 1987-09-20

Filmes

42nd Street
Musical
The story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on 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.
Instinto Fatal
Novel
Allan, uma rapaz cheio de vida com uma linda namorada, sofre um acidente e fica tetraplégico. Cansado de hipocrisia dos que o rodeiam, só tem como amigo, Geoffrey que lhe dá uma macaca de presente. Ela é um experimento de laboratório que parece ter um cérebro quimicamente humano, o que a faz ter um contato telepático com Allan, passando a destruir todos que o atormentam.
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.
Alô, Dolly!
Book
Dolly Levy é uma viúva socialite que trabalha como casamenteira. Ela viaja para Yonkers para encontrar uma parceira para o "meio-milionário" Horace Vandergelder. Dory insentiva os dois funcionário de Vangergelder a viajar para Nova Yorque para procurar garotas onde acaba se metendo em grandes confusões.
Adeus, Amor
Novel
Muitas gargalhadas e grandes canções tornaram este filme, baseado em um show de sucesso da Broadway, num dos inesquecíveis musicais de todos os tempos. Quando o astro do rock e paixão das adolescentes Conrad Birdie é recrutado, as garotas do país vão à loucura e o compositor de Conrad, Albert (Dick Van Dyke), fica desempregado. Assim, Albert e sua namorada (Janet Leigh) organizam um concurso nacional no qual uma felizarda ganhará um beijo de adeus de Conrad no programa de TV de Ed Sullivan. Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) é a ganhadora e toda a comitiva de Conrad se dirige até a pequena cidade—para desgosto do sempre irritado pai da garota (Paul Lynde) e do ciumento namorado (o cantor Bobby Rydell) O resultado é o caos e uma série hilariante de complicações românticas.