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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Elaine_MayElaine May - Wikipedia

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   Elaine Iva May (née Berlin; born April 21, 1932) is an American comedian, filmmaker, playwright, and actress. She first gained fame in the 1950s for her improvisational comedy routines with Mike Nichols before transitioning her career, regularly breaking the mold as a writer and director of several critically acclaimed films.

2. www.imdb.com › name › nm0561938Elaine May - IMDb

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   Elaine May (born under the name Elaine Iva Berlin) is an American actress, comedian, film director, playwright, and screenwriter from Philadelphia. Her professional career started in the 1950s and is still ongoing. She has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Height: 1.63 m

   • Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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4. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-front-rowCould Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due? | The New Yorker

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   Jun 4, 2024 · Could Elaine May Finally Be Getting Her Due? A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career. By Richard...

5. www.britannica.com › biography › Elaine-MayElaine May | Biography, Mike Nichols, Movies, & Broadway

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   5 days ago · Elaine May (born April 21, 1932, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director who is known for her sardonic wit, her caustic view of human nature, and her uncompromising fearlessness in all her work.

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     Elaine May Salutes Mike Nichols at the AFI Life Achievement Award - Extended Version

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     Elaine May receives an Honorary Award at the 12th Governors Awards

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     A NEW LEAF (1971) Clip - Walter Matthau & Elaine May

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     The uncapturable Elaine May

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     Elaine May Is the Greatest Director You’ve Never Heard Of

     A new biography of writer-director-performer Elaine May makes a strong case for her canonization as one of our greatest comic talents. Unfortunately, Hollywood never knew what to do with her. Review of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine ...

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     Celebrating Elaine May with ‘The Heartbreak Kid’

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     ‘The Heartbreak Kid': Elaine May's beloved Oscar nominee has a rare screening at New York's Metrograph Theater

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8. thefilmstage.com › elaine-may-finally-gets-theElaine May Finally Gets the Biography She Deserves

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   Jun 3, 2024 · Before now there has never been a full-length biography of Elaine May, the icon known for being one-half of Nichols and May and the director of A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, Mikey and Nicky, and the hilarious, unfairly maligned Ishtar.

   • Author: Christopher Schobert

9. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › booksElaine May biography is brilliant portrait of comedy icon ...

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   May 29, 2024 · Elaine May is one of the key architects of American comedy; an alumna of the influential Kennedy-era underground scene in Chicago that gave us the O.G. “Saturday Night Live” cast and...

10. www.nytimes.com › 2024/05/27 › booksBook Review: ‘Miss May Does Not Exist,’ by Carrie Courogen ...

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    May 27, 2024 · What happened to Elaine May in the 1960s is that she became attached to a lot of projects, including her own plays, that flopped. She tripped into a messy scandal.