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Jean Kerr(1922-2003)

  • Writer
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Author, playwright and songwriter. She joined ASCAP in 1959, and her chief musical collaborators included LeRoy Anderson, Jay Gorney, Jean Ford, and her husband, Walter Kerr. She authored "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" and "The Snake Has All the Lines", the plays "Jenny Kiss'd Me", "King of Hearts", "Mary, Mary", and "Poor Richard", and the Broadway stage scores and libretti for "Touch and Go" and "Goldilocks". Her popular-song compositions include "This Had Better Be Love", "It'll Be Alright in a Hundred Years", "Be a Mess", "The Pussy Foot", "Save a Kiss", and "I Never Know When to Say When".
BornJuly 10, 1922
DiedJanuary 5, 2003(80)
BornJuly 10, 1922
DiedJanuary 5, 2003(80)
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Mary, Mary (1963)
Mary, Mary
5.9
  • Writer
  • 1963
Si j'épousais ma femme (1956)
Si j'épousais ma femme
6.3
  • Writer
  • 1956
Matinee Theater (1955)
Matinee Theater
6.7
TV Series
  • Writer
Doris Day, David Niven, Baby Gellert, Charles Herbert, Stanley Livingston, Flip Mark, Janis Paige, and Hobo in Ne mangez pas les marguerites (1960)
Ne mangez pas les marguerites
6.4
  • Writer
  • 1960

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  • Bob kai Mairi
    TV Movie
    • play: Mary, Mary
    • 1996
  • Nie wieder Mary (Mary, Mary)
    TV Movie
    • novel
    • 1983
  • Armer Richard
    TV Movie
    • teleplay
    • 1975
  • Karin Anselm in Nie wieder Mary (1974)
    Nie wieder Mary
    TV Movie
    • play
    • 1974
  • Jacques Balutin, Darry Cowl, Jean Lefebvre, Jacqueline Maillan, Maria Pacôme, Fernand Raynaud, and Michel Roux in Au théâtre ce soir (1966)
    Au théâtre ce soir
    7.7
    TV Series
    • play
    • 1970
  • Armer Richard
    TV Movie
    • play
    • 1969
  • Ne mangez pas les marguerites (1965)
    Ne mangez pas les marguerites
    7.0
    TV Series
    • book
    • 1965–1967
  • Der große Schwindel - Musical aus der Welt des Stummfilms
    TV Movie
    • play
    • 1966
  • Goldielocks
    TV Movie
    • Based on the musical by
    • 1965
  • Mary, Mary (1963)
    Mary, Mary
    5.9
    • based on the stage play by
    • 1963
  • Doris Day, David Niven, Baby Gellert, Charles Herbert, Stanley Livingston, Flip Mark, Janis Paige, and Hobo in Ne mangez pas les marguerites (1960)
    Ne mangez pas les marguerites
    6.4
    • book
    • 1960
  • Matinee Theater (1955)
    Matinee Theater
    6.7
    TV Series
    • play
    • 1956
  • Si j'épousais ma femme (1956)
    Si j'épousais ma femme
    6.3
    • play "The King of Hearts"
    • 1956
  • The Good Fairy
    TV Movie
    • adaptation
    • 1956
  • Broadway Television Theatre (1952)
    Broadway Television Theatre
    7.2
    TV Series
    • play
    • 1952

Personal details

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  • Born
    • July 10, 1922
    • Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Died
    • January 5, 2003
    • White Plains, New York, USA(pneumonia)
  • Spouse
    • Walter Kerr1943 - October 9, 1996 (his death, 6 children)
  • Other works
    Active on Broadway in the following productions:
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    Collaborated with her husband on several comedic plays that appeared on Broadway, including "Song of Bernadette", "Jenny Kissed Me", and "Tough and Go".
  • Quotes
    I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?

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