Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood at age 18 to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip. Then he heard an Eddie Cantor radio show and realized that he could write better jokes. Interestingly enough, Cantor's writers agreed with him. Thus was born one of the more interesting and varied careers in Hollywood. Kanter's writing career went from radio shows to screenplays to television series. He worked with Bob Hope, Frank Capra, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. With an Emmy for writing The George Gobel Show, he was the creator of Julia. Though he enjoyed great success as a producer…mehr
Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood at age 18 to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip. Then he heard an Eddie Cantor radio show and realized that he could write better jokes. Interestingly enough, Cantor's writers agreed with him. Thus was born one of the more interesting and varied careers in Hollywood. Kanter's writing career went from radio shows to screenplays to television series. He worked with Bob Hope, Frank Capra, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. With an Emmy for writing The George Gobel Show, he was the creator of Julia. Though he enjoyed great success as a producer and director, Kanter always first was a writer. How many scripts has he written? "More than I can lift," he says.
The late Hal Kanter was a multiple Emmy Award-winning writer, director and producer of such feature films and television series as Loving You, The Rose Tattoo and Julia. A three term governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he scripted 39 Academy Awards shows. He lived in Encino, California.
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Table of Contents Preview 1. Hal Did a Lot for Our Family 2. The Advantage of Being on the Bottom 3. The Happy Hour of Eternity 4. Do Ducks Waddle? 5. I Do All of My Work Sitting Down 6. Romance Into Marriage 7. Spice to My Conversation 8. Whether It Happened or Not 9. Everybody Knows It's Raining 10. Why Aren't I Wet? 11. His Dentist Was a Proctologist 12. Only a Pig 13. An Honest Living 14. 'Til I Say It Is 15. A Virtue I Do Not Possess 16. An Apology 17. My One Goal 18. "Shit," He Said Brie?y 19. Even Inanimate Objects 20. Hollywood's Lesson 21. No Small Parts 22. Some People Are So Sensitive 23. I'm O.K. 24. No Good Can Come of It 25. What a Lamp Post Thinks of Dogs 26. By Words Alone 27. If Writers Were Good Businessmen 28. A Clean Sheet of Paper 29. If Lincoln Were Alive Today 30. But Why Should I Depress You? 31. Always a Beginner 32. Ten Percent of Everything 33. No Reason to Regret It 34. I'd Rather Have Cocoa 35. I Forgot to Write It Down 36. Three People Have a Baby 37. If You See My Producer 38. On Schedule 39. Without Music 40. The Show Goes On 41. Still Frisky 42. The Gift of Laughter 43. Expressing Ourselves 44. When My Comedy Succeeds 45. What Critics Say 46. Hamlet's Experiences 47. Feed Gravel to His Oxen 48. The Big Show 49. You're Going to Love Melbourne 50. If You Live Long Enough Index
Table of Contents Preview 1. Hal Did a Lot for Our Family 2. The Advantage of Being on the Bottom 3. The Happy Hour of Eternity 4. Do Ducks Waddle? 5. I Do All of My Work Sitting Down 6. Romance Into Marriage 7. Spice to My Conversation 8. Whether It Happened or Not 9. Everybody Knows It's Raining 10. Why Aren't I Wet? 11. His Dentist Was a Proctologist 12. Only a Pig 13. An Honest Living 14. 'Til I Say It Is 15. A Virtue I Do Not Possess 16. An Apology 17. My One Goal 18. "Shit," He Said Brie?y 19. Even Inanimate Objects 20. Hollywood's Lesson 21. No Small Parts 22. Some People Are So Sensitive 23. I'm O.K. 24. No Good Can Come of It 25. What a Lamp Post Thinks of Dogs 26. By Words Alone 27. If Writers Were Good Businessmen 28. A Clean Sheet of Paper 29. If Lincoln Were Alive Today 30. But Why Should I Depress You? 31. Always a Beginner 32. Ten Percent of Everything 33. No Reason to Regret It 34. I'd Rather Have Cocoa 35. I Forgot to Write It Down 36. Three People Have a Baby 37. If You See My Producer 38. On Schedule 39. Without Music 40. The Show Goes On 41. Still Frisky 42. The Gift of Laughter 43. Expressing Ourselves 44. When My Comedy Succeeds 45. What Critics Say 46. Hamlet's Experiences 47. Feed Gravel to His Oxen 48. The Big Show 49. You're Going to Love Melbourne 50. If You Live Long Enough Index
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