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====Directing and producing==== [[File:The-Front-Page-1928-5.jpg|thumb|''[[The Front Page]]'' (1928)]] [[File:Ford-Crawford-Of-Mice-and-Men-1938-cropped.jpg|thumb|''Of Mice and Men'' (1937), with [[Wallace Ford]] and [[Broderick Crawford]]]] Kaufman directed the original or revival stage productions of many plays and musicals, including ''[[The Front Page]]'' by [[Charles MacArthur]] and [[Ben Hecht]] (1928), ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]'' (1931 and 1952), ''[[Of Mice and Men (play)|Of Mice and Men]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]] (1937), ''[[My Sister Eileen (play)|My Sister Eileen]]'' by [[Joseph Fields]] and [[Jerome Chodorov]] (1940), ''[[Hollywood Pinafore]]'' (1945), ''The Next Half Hour'' (1945), ''Park Avenue'' (1946, also co-wrote the book), ''Town House'' (1948), ''Bravo!'' (1948, also co-wrote the script), ''Metropole'' (1949), the [[Frank Loesser]] musical ''[[Guys and Dolls (musical)|Guys and Dolls]]'', for which he won the 1951 Best Director [[Tony Award]], ''[[The Enchanted (play)|The Enchanted]]'' (1950), ''The Small Hours'' (1951, also co-wrote the script), ''Fancy Meeting You Again'' (1952, also co-wrote the script), ''[[The Solid Gold Cadillac]]'' (1953, also co-wrote the script), and ''[[Romanoff and Juliet (play)|Romanoff and Juliet]]'' by [[Peter Ustinov]] (1957).<ref name=ibdb/> Kaufman produced many of his own plays, as well as those of other writers. For a short time, from ''circa'' 1940 to 1946, Kaufman, with Moss Hart and Max Gordon, owned and operated the [[Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)|Lyceum Theatre]].<ref>Bloom, Ken (2007). [https://books.google.com/books?id=zd15GW0ruWUC&pg=PA158 "Lyceum Theatre"]. ''The Routledge Guide To Broadway'', CRC Press, {{ISBN|0-415-97380-5}}, p. 158.</ref>
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