The Sunshine Boys

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The Sunshine Boys

film by Ross [1975]

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- Herbert Ross
  Films of the mid-1970s
  The Sunshine Boys (1975), Ross’s first handling of source material by playwright Neil Simon, proved to be an excellent comic vehicle for George Burns and Walter Matthau, who played a pair of ancient vaudevillians coming out of retirement to make a television special. Burns won…
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  The Sunshine Boys (1975), Ross’s first handling of source material by playwright Neil Simon, proved to be an excellent comic vehicle for George Burns and Walter Matthau, who played a pair of ancient vaudevillians coming out of retirement to make a television special. Burns won…
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- Neil Simon
  …for The Odd Couple (1968), The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Goodbye Girl (1977), and California Suite (1978). In 1993 Simon adapted The Goodbye Girl into a popular stage musical. He wrote the books for other musicals, including Little Me (1962), Sweet Charity (1966), Promises, Promises (1968), and They’re Playing Our…
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  …for The Odd Couple (1968), The Sunshine Boys (1975), The Goodbye Girl (1977), and California Suite (1978). In 1993 Simon adapted The Goodbye Girl into a popular stage musical. He wrote the books for other musicals, including Little Me (1962), Sweet Charity (1966), Promises, Promises (1968), and They’re Playing Our…
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