Franklin Lacey
American playwright and screenwriter
Franklin Lacey (1917–1988) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for co-authoring the story for The Music Man (1957), together with collaborator Meredith Willson,[1] and later collaborating on the screenplay with Marion Hargrove for the 1962 film version. One of his first major works was the play Pagan in the Parlor in 1949; it was directed for the stage by Frankenstein director James Whale. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Rain for a Dusty Summer (1971), which starred Ernest Borgnine. He worked closely with the author Aldous Huxley on a musical version of his novel Brave New World, but the project was eventually shelved.
References
- ^ Bloom, Ken and Vlastnik, Frank. Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of all Time, pp. 215-16. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York, 2004. ISBN 1-57912-390-2
External links
- Franklin Lacey at IMDb
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Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey's The Music Man (1957)
- The Music Man (1962)
- The Music Man (TV, 2003)
- "Iowa Stubborn"
- "(Ya Got) Trouble"
- "Seventy-Six Trombones"
- "Goodnight, Ladies"
- "Shipoopi"
- "Till There Was You"
- Jimmy Guiffre and his Music Men Play The Music Man
- "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"
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