Elaine May
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| Known for: |
The Birdcage, Primary Colors, Heaven Can Wait |
| Birth name: |
Elaine Berlin |
| Birthday: |
21 April 1932,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Trivia

Mother of
Jeannie Berlin

She and
Mike Nichols were referred to as "the world's fastest humans".

Partnered with
Mike Nichols for a number of years until their less than amicable split. They made up years later and wrote the movie
The Birdcage.

She married as a teenager and had a daughter (
Jeannie Berlin, born in 1949) before she turned 18 years old

Author of play "Adult Entertainment", due to open off-Broadway in New York City, fall 2002, directed by veteran filmmaker
Stanley Donen.

So brief was her 70s marriage to lyricist
Sheldon Harnick of
Fiddler on the Roof fame, the joke went that Elaine got custody of the cake.

Has not directed a movie since the colossal box office failure of
Ishtar.
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