Abe Burrows
Birthday: December 18, 1910 in New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Abram Solman Borowitz
Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University. He began his writing career as a script writer for "Duffy' ...Show More
Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
When you're dealing with songwriters, I think you're dealing with the most intuitive kind of guys. N Show more
When you're dealing with songwriters, I think you're dealing with the most intuitive kind of guys. None of them can explain where the hell their stuff is coming from. They're all a little nuts - and it comes out. See, everybody forgets that the purest example of abstract art in our world is music. Music gives you all of those things - love, hate, anger, fear - all of it in abstract form. Hide
Doctoring seldom cures a show. The sickness usually starts at the moment the author puts the first s Show more
Doctoring seldom cures a show. The sickness usually starts at the moment the author puts the first sheet of paper into his typewriter. All the redirecting and recasting can never help much if the basic story is wrong. Hide
[on Frank Loesser] He always could write songs. They burst out of him! How, or why or where? I don't Show more
[on Frank Loesser] He always could write songs. They burst out of him! How, or why or where? I don't know how you can ask that. What makes an artist, even a Van Gogh or whoever? The stuff was pouring out of him, It was always there. He read a lot, he asked questions a lot, he knew a lot. He was fascinated with words, the way I am. Hide
Abe Burrows's FILMOGRAPHY
as Director (1)
as Creator (3)
