They also penned several successful comedies; notably winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945 for their original play State of the Union.
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse first collaborated on the rewriting of the book of Anything Goes (1934)[1][2] which became a major hit and has been frequently revived.
(1937), Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam (1950), Harold Karr's Happy Hunting (1956), and Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music (1959).
[1] They wrote the play Life with Father, which opened in 1939 and starred Lindsay and his wife Dorothy Stickney.
Other original Broadway plays they penned together included Strip for Action (1942), Life With Mother (1948), Remains to Be Seen (1951), The Prescott Proposals (1953), The Great Sebastians (1956), and Tall Story (1959).