George Seligman Oppenheimer (February 7, 1900 in New York City – August 14, 1977) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and journalist.
6-475: In 1925, Oppenheimer cofounded The Viking Press , but becoming more interested in writing than publishing, he began a career as a screenwriter in Hollywood in 1933, hired to complete the screenplay of Samuel Goldwyn 's comedy Roman Scandals (1933). For the rest of the 1930s he was employed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , primarily as a script doctor , rewriting, editing or polishing existing scripts. Oppenheimer
12-603: Is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House . It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975. In 1933, Viking Press founded a department called Junior Books to publish children's books. The first book published was The Story About Ping in 1933 under editor May Massee . Junior Books
18-493: The Speak and Firebird imprints. In 2023, Tamar Brazis was named v-p and publisher of Viking Children's Books. The Viking Critical Library offers academic editions of literary texts . Like W. W. Norton 's Norton Critical Editions , all titles print the text alongside a selection of critical essays and contextual documents (including relevant extracts from the author's oeuvre). The series, which only saw sporadic publications in
24-503: The weekly "On Stage" column, became a daily critic in 1963, and was named Sunday drama critic in 1972. Oppenheimer, a homosexual, never married. Oppenheimer was the occasional sexual partner of the young Harry Hay ; the pair met while cruising on Hollywood Boulevard . This article about an American screenwriter born in the 1900s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Viking Press Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin , also listed as Viking Books )
30-647: Was later renamed Viking Children's Books. Viking Kestrel was one of its imprints . Its books have won the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and include such books as The Twenty-One Balloons , written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois (1947, Newbery medal winner for 1948), Corduroy , Make Way for Ducklings , The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (1993), The Outsiders , Pippi Longstocking , and The Story of Ferdinand . Its paperbacks are now published by Puffin Books , which includes
36-682: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work on The War Against Mrs. Hadley at the 15th Academy Awards of 1942. His contributions to theater criticism are recognized by the Newsday George Oppenheimer Award , which was awarded annually from 1979 to 2007 to the best New York debut production by an American playwright for a non-musical play. Oppenheimer graduated from Williams College and studied at Harvard University with George Pierce Baker . He joined Newsday in 1955 to write
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