Milton Eric Blau (June 1, 1921 â€" February 17, 2009) was an author
and is best known as the creator of the Off Broadway show Jacques Brel
is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.Blau was born in Bridgeport,
Connecticut on June 1, 1921 to Hungarian immigrants who were residents
of Manhattan's Lower East Side. He attended the City College of New
York, which he left before graduating following an argument with a
professor about William Shakespeare. Blau served in Europe during
World War II in the United States Army Signal Corps, where he wrote
poems for French journals that he had translated into French.After
completing his military service, he founded the journal Masses and
Mainstream and worked as a writer and in public relations. He was a
ghostwriter for sports instruction booklets on behalf of basketball
player Bob Cousy and baseball's Roger Maris. Together with cartoonist
Roy Doty, he created The Adventures of Danny Dee, an early show for
children with animation that broadcast starting in 1953 on the New
York City affiliate of the DuMont Television Network.Although the
similarity was lost as he grew older, Blau had an uncanny resemblance
to Groucho Marx, and would often be approached by fans of the
comedian.
and is best known as the creator of the Off Broadway show Jacques Brel
is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.Blau was born in Bridgeport,
Connecticut on June 1, 1921 to Hungarian immigrants who were residents
of Manhattan's Lower East Side. He attended the City College of New
York, which he left before graduating following an argument with a
professor about William Shakespeare. Blau served in Europe during
World War II in the United States Army Signal Corps, where he wrote
poems for French journals that he had translated into French.After
completing his military service, he founded the journal Masses and
Mainstream and worked as a writer and in public relations. He was a
ghostwriter for sports instruction booklets on behalf of basketball
player Bob Cousy and baseball's Roger Maris. Together with cartoonist
Roy Doty, he created The Adventures of Danny Dee, an early show for
children with animation that broadcast starting in 1953 on the New
York City affiliate of the DuMont Television Network.Although the
similarity was lost as he grew older, Blau had an uncanny resemblance
to Groucho Marx, and would often be approached by fans of the
comedian.
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