D) Neil Simon playwright 4 Tony Awards – HOF GUARANTEED AMERICANA autograph

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HOF GUARANTEED AMERICANA signed cut.  Deceased in 2018, this is a Neil Simon hand signed autograph.  He was an American
playwright
,
screenwriter
and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined
Oscar
and
Tony
nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in
New York City
during the
Great Depression
, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like
Charlie Chaplin
. After a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, and after graduating from high school, he began writing comedy scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. Among them were
Sid Caesar
's
Your Show of Shows
from 1950 (where he worked alongside other young writers including
Carl Reiner
,
Mel Brooks
and
Selma Diamond
), and
The Phil Silvers Show
, which ran from 1955 to 1959.  He began writing his own plays beginning with
Come Blow Your Horn
(1961), which took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on
Broadway
. It was followed by two more successful plays,
Barefoot in the Park
(1963) and
The Odd Couple
(1965), for which he won a
Tony Award
. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway."
During the 1960s to 1980s, he wrote both original screenplays and stage plays, with some films actually based on his plays. His style ranged from romantic comedy to farce to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he has garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three. During one season, he had four successful plays running on Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the
Neil Simon Theatre
, named in his honor.
This autograph was obtained in the 1990’s through the mail by the President of the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
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