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Full articleArnold Schulman (August 11, 1925 – February 4, 2023) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and producer noted for his character-driven narratives in film and television. Born in Philadelphia to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and raised in a small North Carolina town, Schulman honed his craft through on-the-job training in live television, authoring nearly seventy teleplays before achieving acclaim in feature films.
Schulman's screenwriting career peaked with Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and Goodbye, Columbus (1969), earning another nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Later works included the screenplays for Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), a docudrama adaptation chronicling the early AIDS epidemic. His contributions extended to Broadway and novels, though he remained best known for bridging television's golden age with Hollywood's narrative storytelling.
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Arnold Schulman (August 11, 1925 – February 4, 2023) was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, songwriter and novelist. He was a stage actor long associated with the American Theatre Wing and the Actors Studio.
