Milton Lazarus was an American playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. He began his career as a Press Agent before pursuing a career as a writer. He wrote the book for the Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

s Shoot the Works (1931), New Faces of 1936 (1936), and Song of Norway

Song of Norway

Song of Norway is an operetta written in 1944 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Edvard Grieg and the book by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran...

(1944). Several of his stage plays were also mounted on Broadway, including Whatever Goes Up (1935), I Want a Policeman (1936), Every Man for Himself (1940), and The Sun Field (1942). His play Sudden Money was adapted into a 1939 film. He wrote the screenplay

Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...

s to the films When the Lights Go on Again (1944) and Paris Follies of 1956

Paris Follies of 1956

Paris Follies of 1956 is a 1955 American film directed by Leslie Goodwins.The film is also known as Fresh from Paris in the USA .- Cast :*Forrest Tucker as Dan Bradley*Margaret Whiting as Margaret Walton...

(1955). He died at Good Samaritan Hospital

Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles)

Good Samaritan Hospital is a hospital in Los Angeles, California, United States. The hospital has 408 beds.-History:Good Samaritan Hospital was founded in 1885, although the current hospital was built in 1976...

in Los Angeles at the age of 56.

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