JeromeChodorov, a prolific playwright and librettist and co-author of the book for the musical "Wonderful Town," who survived as a screenwriter despite being on a Hollywood fllist, died Sunday in Nyack, N.Y. He was 93 and lived in Pomona, N.Y. His death was announced by his daughter, Susan Chodorov Crane.
Chodorov was at one time one of the most consistently produced writers in New York, with more than a dozen plays and musicals on Broadway from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s.
Chodorov – who had made a sizable income throughout the 1930s and '40s as a screenwriter and script doctor – was fllisted in Hollywood for most of the decade.
He was born in New York City, and entered journalism in the 1930s, but is best known for his play My Sister Eileen and for the musical comedy Wonderful Town, which is based on it.
His brother, Edward Chodorov (1904-1988), was also a playwright, author of the perennial favorite of amateur groups, Kind Lady.
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