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Paddy Chayefsky

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Also known as Sidney Aaron Chayefsky, Chayefsky

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist (1923-1981)

Person · Open Library

Born
1923
Died
1981
Works
54

Top works

  • Der Yonṭef gezang
  • Yonṭef gezang
  • Marty
  • Le 10e [i.e. dixième] homme
  • Der zehnte Mann

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1923-01-29
Active to
1981-08-01
lyricist

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3
Total plays
9

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Quotes

  • CANTOR: And ye shall know Him in the strangest costumes and in the strangest places.
  • MR FAULKNER: Give the facts a good look in the face, John.
  • DAUGHTER: Life doesn't dovetail so nicely . . .
  • TWENTY-YEAR-OLD: I gotta girl, she's always asking me to marry her. So I look at that face, and I say to myself: "Could I stand looking at that face for the resta my life?"
  • Marty was a comment on the social values of our times.
  • Nearby is the boss, a man in his thirties. He is bent over a machine, working on it with a screw driver. The boss is really a pleasant man; he works under the illusion, however, that gruffness is a requisite quality of an executive.

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