Born: June 25, 1887 - Forestville, New York, USA Died: January 31, 1995 - Miami Beach, Florida, USA Cause: stroke
His father was mayor of Salamanca, New York, for two terms. In 1898 his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Abbott attended Kearney Military Academy. The family returned to New York, where Abbott attended Hamburg High School, graduating in 1907, and the University of Rochester (BA degree in 1911); wrote play "Perfectly Harmless" for University Dramatic Club. 1911-12: at Harvard University, studying play writing under George Pierce Baker; wrote play "The Head of the Family" for Harvard Dramatic Club. 1912: won $100 in a play contest run by Bijou Theatre, Boston with "The Man in the Manhole", and worked at Bijou for a year as assistant stage manager. 1913: Broadway debut as actor in "The Misleading Lady" (as Babe Merrill, a drunken student), followed by "The Yeoman of the Guard" (1915), "The Queen's Enemies" (1916), "Daddies" (1918), "The Broken Wing" (1920), "Dulcy" (on tour) (1921), "Zander the Great" (1923), "White Desert" (1923), "Hell-Bent for Heaven" (1924), "Lazybones" (1924), "Processional" (1925) and "Cowboy Crazy" (1926), thereafter concentrating on writing and directing, e.g. "The Fall Guy" (his Broadway's debut, 1925), "Three Men on a Horse" (1935), "Jumbo" (1935), "On Your Toes" (1936), "The Boys from Syracuse" (1938), "Too Many Girls" (1939), "Pal Joey" (1940), "Best Foot Forward" (1941), "On the Town" (1944), "High Buttom Shoes" (1947), "Where's Charley?" (1948), "Call Me Madam" (1950), "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1951), "Wonderful Town" (1953), "The Pajama Game" (1954), "Damn Yankees" (1955), "New Girl Town" (1957), "Fiorello!" (1959), "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum" (1962), "Flora, the Red Menace" (1965; Liza Minnelli's Broadway debut). He won five Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize (for "Fiorello!"). Academy Award nominated for "All Quiet on the Western Front". Daughter Judith Abbott is stage actress/director and was married (1946-49) to actor Tom Ewell.
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