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Bye Bye Brecher

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:06 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
Screen writer for Bye Bye Birdie, (who gets posted so I could use the header)
Irving Brecher
Hollywood screenwriter who created scripts for two Marx Brothers films and minted many quickfire jokes .


Last Updated: 6:49PM GMT 20 Nov 2008
Irving Brecher
Photo: AP

Irving Brecher, who died on Monday [Nov 17] aged 94, was a Hollywood scriptwriter who wrote screenplays for two Marx Brothers films and the Judy Garland musical Meet Me in St Louis (1944), as well as one-liners for the American comedian Milton Berle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... echer.html

Re: Bye Bye Brecher

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:21 pm
by kayrharris
That was some good stuff. I hope we have more like him in the future.