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Alan Jay Lerner ( August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986 ) was an American lyricist and librettist.
Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.
Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.
At both Choate and Harvard, Lerner was a classmate of John F. Kennedy ; at Choate they had worked together on the yearbook staff.
Lerner and Loewe's first collaboration was a musical adaptation of Barry Conners's farce The Patsy called Life of the Party for a Detroit stock company.
This was the same team who would later join with Lerner and Loewe to create Gigi.
Before finishing the musical, Lerner was eager to write while My Fair Lady was taking so long to complete.
Camelot was a hit nonetheless, with a poignant coda ; immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told Life magazine that JFK's administration reminded her of the " one brief shining moment " of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot.
In 1965 Lerner collaborated again with Burton Lane on the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was adapted for film in 1970.
At this time, Lerner was hired by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, Doctor Dolittle, but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse.
Lerner was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971.
After their divorce in 1981, Lerner was ordered to pay her a settlement of $ 50, 000.
The divorces cost him much of his wealth, but Lerner bears primary responsibility for his financial ups and downs, and was apparently less than truthful about his financial fecklessness.

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Lerner was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer and had to withdraw from preparations for a time.

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Lerner worked with Kurt Weill on the stage musical Love Life ( 1948 ) and Burton Lane on the movie musical Royal Wedding ( 1951 ).
Lerner and Loewe's run of success continued with their next project, a film adaptation of stories from Colette, the Academy Award winning film musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.
Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).
Most biographers blame Lerner's professional decline on the lack of a strong director with whom Lerner could collaborate, as Neil Simon did with Mike Nichols or Stephen Sondheim with Harold Prince ( Moss Hart, who had directed My Fair Lady, died shortly after Camelot opened ).
( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.
Lerner would often struggle with writing his lyrics.
Part of the reason that Hayek stressed the knowledge problem was also because he was mainly concerned with debating the proposal for Market Socialism and the Lange Model by Oskar R. Lange ( 1938 ) and Hayek's student Abba Lerner ( 1934, 1937, 1938 ), which was developed in response to the calculation argument.
Economists who studied with Hayek at the LSE in the 1930s and the 1940s include Arthur Lewis, Ronald Coase, John Kenneth Galbraith, Abba Lerner, Nicholas Kaldor, George Shackle, Thomas Balogh, Vera Smith, L. K. Jha, Arthur Seldon, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, and Oskar Lange.
Much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, but also Brenda Cooper and Edward M. Lerner.
Ringworld companion series ( with Edward M. Lerner )
Paint Your Wagon is a Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
Seven years later, a musical film version with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and a score by Lerner and Frederick Loewe won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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He also wrote screenplays while in Hollywood, was an editor for Farrar & Rinehart, served on the Dade County, Florida Defense Council, was a director of the Lerner Marine Laboratory, and at one time was an adviser to the chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee for Atomic Energy which led to the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission.
After Quigley visits corrupt bank president Edward Biderman ( Michael Lerner ) in his bank office to discuss his plan ( along with threatening Biderman's family if he does not comply with it ), Quigley explains that wisecracking Juice ( Tone Loc ) will be stopping by Biderman's office with a check to be cashed for $ 1, 000, 000 the next day at 1: 00 P. M. After the meeting, Quigley runs over Preston's bicycle in a Jaguar XJ that he has presumably purchased with the stolen money, while Preston was riding out of the bank's parking lot.
In August 2011, while Yen was on a vacation with his family in the United States, he reportedly received an invitation by producer Avi Lerner to star in The Expendables 2.
* Ken Lerner as Mayor Jerry Killium ( while not present in the USA version, a Japanese edit exists which features Lerner as the Mayor of New York City.
As Cordell stalks the streets his enemies Officers Jack Forrest ( Bruce Campbell ) and Teresa Mallory ( Laurene Landon ) are put back on active duty by Commissioner Edward Doyle ( Michael Lerner ) who has the two undergo a psychiatric evaluation under Officer Susan Riley ( Claudia Christian ); while Jack is content that Cordell is long gone and wants to go on with his life, Teresa is convinced that Cordell is still alive ( his body never being recovered ) and is still plotting his revenge on the city for ruining him.

Lerner and Loewe
In 1956, Lerner and Loewe unveiled My Fair Lady.
In 1973, Lerner coaxed Fritz Loewe out of retirement to augment the Gigi score for a musical stage adaptation.
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It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King.
On 27 April 2009, Caron traveled to New York as an honored guest at a tribute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe at the Paley Center for Media.
" Rock Island " from Meridith Wilson's " The Music Man " is wholly spoken by an ensemble of travelling salesmen, as are most of the numbers for British actor Rex Harrison in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady.
This is the only musical adaptation authorized by Bradbury himself, who turned down Lerner and Loewe in the 1960s when they asked his permission to make a musical based on the novel.
Lerner and Loewe adapted the film for a 1973 stage musical that proved to be unsuccessful.
Burton appeared on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Time Remembered ( 1958 ) and winning the award for playing King Arthur in the musical Camelot ( 1960 ), directed by Moss Hart and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
When Shaw heard, in 1921, that Franz Lehár wanted to set his play Pygmalion to music, he sent word to Vienna that Lehár be instructed that he could not touch Pygmalion without infringing Shaw's copyright and that Shaw had " no intention of allowing the history of The Chocolate Soldier to be repeated "( only after Shaw's death was Pygmalion eventually adapted by Lerner and Loewe as My Fair Lady ).
The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe.
Loewe then decided to retire to Palm Springs, California, not writing anything until he was approached by Lerner to augment the Gigi film score with additional tunes for a 1973 stage adaptation, which won him his second Tony, this time for Best Original Score.
The Musical Worlds of Lerner and Loewe, U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-8040-8
By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
The last show Hart directed was the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot ( 1960 ).
Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
Lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe had previously collaborated on three musicals ; the first, Life of the Party, closed during pre-Broadway tryouts, and the second and third, What's Up?
Though Lerner and Loewe originally took Brigadoon to producer Billy Rose, Cheryl Crawford was the producer who actually brought Brigadoon to Broadway.
( In 1956, after Howard's death, Lerner and Loewe set Pygmalion to music in My Fair Lady.

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