Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical
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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical Awarded for Outstanding Writing for a Musical Film Country United States Presented by Writers Guild of America First awarded 1949 Last awarded 1969 Website http://www.wga.org/
The Writers Guild Award for Best Written Musical was an award presented from 1949 to 1969 by the Writers Guild of America , after which it was discontinued.
Winners & Nominees[1] [ edit ] The year indicates when the film was released. The awards were presented the following year. Year Film Writer(s) 1948 (1st) [2] Easter Parade Sidney Sheldon , Frances Goodrich , and Albert Hackett Luxury Liner Gladys Lehman , and Richard Connell On an Island with You Dorothy Kingsley , Dorothy Cooper , Charles Martin, and Hans Wilhelm That Lady in Ermine Samson Raphaelson The Emperor Waltz Charles Brackett, and Billy Wilder When My Baby Smiles at Me Lamar Trotti You Were Meant for Me Elick Moll, and Valentine Davies 1949 (2nd) [3] On the Town Adolph Green & Betty Comden In the Good Old Summertime Albert Hackett , Frances Goodrich , and Ivan Tors Jolson Sings Again Sidney Buchman Take Me Out to the Ball Game Harry Tugend, and George Wells The Barkleys of Broadway Betty Comden , and Adolph Green You're My Eve Lamar Trotti
Year Film Writer(s) 1950 (3rd) [4] Annie Get Your Gun Sidney Sheldon My Blue Heaven Lamar Trotti, and Claude Binyon Summer Stock George Wells , and Sy Gomberg The West Point Story John Monks Jr. , Charles Hoffman , and Irving Wallace Three Little Words George Wells 1951 (4th) [5] An American in Paris Alan Jay Lerner Here Comes the Groom Virginia Van Upp , Liam O'Brien , and Myles Connolly On the Riviera Valentine Davies , Phoebe Ephron , and Henry Ephron Show Boat John Lee Mahim The Great Caruso Sonya Levien , and William Ludwig 1952 (5th) [6] Singin' in the Rain Betty Comden , and Adolph Green Hans Christian Andersen Moss Hart I'll See You in My Dreams! Jack Rose, and Melville Shavelson Where's Charley John Monks Jr. With a Song in My Heart Lamar Trotti 1953 (6th) [7] Lili Helen Deutsch Call Me Madam Arthur Sheekman Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Charles Lederer Kiss Me Kate Dorothy Kingsley The Band Wagon Bett Comden , and Adolph Green 1954 (7th) [8] Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Albert Hackett , Frances Goodrich , and Dorothy Kingsley A Star Is Born Moss Hart Carmen Jones Harry Kleiner The Glenn Miller Story Valentine Davies , and Oscar Brodney There's No Business Like Show Business Phoebe Ephron , and Henry Ephron 1955 (8th) [9] Love Me or Leave Me Daniel Fuchs , and Isobel Lennart Daddy long Legs Phoebe Ephron , and Henry Ephron Guys and Dolls Joseph L. Mankiewicz It's Always Fair Weather Betty Comden , and Adolph Green Oklahoma! Sonya Levien , and William Ludwig 1956 (9th) [10] The King and I Ernest Lehman Carousel Phoebe Ephron , and Henry Ephron High Society John Patrick Meet Me in Las Vegas Isobel Lennart The Eddy Duchin Story Samuel A. Taylor 1957 (10th) [11] Les Girls John Patrick Funny Face Leonard Gershe Pal Joey Dorothy Kingsley The Jorker Is Wild Oscar Saul The Pajama Game George Abbott , and Richard Bissell 1958 (11th) [12] Gigi Alan Jay Lerner Damn Yankees George Abbott South Pacific Paul Osborn The Girl Most Likely Paul Jarrico, and Devery Freeman Tom Thumb Ladislas Fodor 1959 (12th) [13] The Five Pennies Melville Shavelson , and Jack Rose A Private's Affair Winston Miller Li'l Abner Norman Panama , and Melvin Frank Never Steal Anything Small Charles Lederer Porgy and Bess N. Richard Nash Say One for Me Robert O'Brien
Year Film Writer(s) 1960 (13th) [14] Bells Are Ringing Betty Comden , and Adolph Green Can-Can Dorothy Kingsley , and Charles Lederer G.I. Blues Edmund Beloin , and Henry Garson Let's Make Love Norman Krasna , and Hal Kanter 1961 (14th) [15] West Side Story Ernest Lehman Babes in Toyland Ward Kimball , and Lowell S. Hawley Blue Hawaii Hal Kanter Flower Drum Song Joseph Fields Snow White and the Three Stooges Noel Langley , and Elwood Ullman 1962 (15th) [16] The Music Man Marion Hargrove Billy Rose's Jumbo Sidney Sheldon Gypsy Leoanard Spigelgass Hey, Let's Twist! Hal Hackady State Fair Richard L. Breen 1963 (16th) [17] Not Awarded 1964 (17th) [18] Mary Poppins Bill Walsh , and Don DaGradi Kissin' Cousins Gerarld Drayson Adams , and Gene Nelson My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner Robin and the 7 Hoods David R. Schwartz Roustabout Anthony Lawrence, and Allan Weiss The Unsinkable Molly Brown Helen Deutsch 1965 (18th) [19] The Sound of Music Ernest Lehman 1966 (19th) [20] Not Awarded 1967 (20th) [21] Thoroughly Modern Millie Richard Morris Camelot Alan Jay Lerner Doctor Dolittle Leslie Bricusse How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying David Swift 1968 (21st) [22] Funny Girl Isobel Lennart Finian's Rainbow E. Y. Harburg , and Fred Saidy Star! William Fairchild
References [ edit ] ^ "Writers Guild Awards Winners 1995-1949" . awards.wga.org . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1949)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1950)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1951)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1952)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1953)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1954)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1955)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1956)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1957)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1958)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1959)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1960)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1961)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1962)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1963)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1964)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1965)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1966)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1967)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1968)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1969)" . IMDb . Retrieved 2019-05-17 . External links [ edit ]
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