N. Richard Nash

He worked as a ten dollar per match boxer and graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1930 before entering the University of Pennsylvania to study English and philosophy.

It was translated to over 40 languages and made into a 1956 Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn, and a 1982 full-length TV production.

It got surprisingly good reviews and the instant they appeared, three studios, all of which had rejected the screenplay, started to bid for this awful, little thing.

[2][3] Over the decades, there have multiple attempts to produce a movie of Cry Macho, including a feature starring Roy Scheider, which began initial production in Mexico in 1991,[4] and one from Arnold Schwarzenegger, who originally planned to return to acting in 2011, after his time as Governor of California, with a film based on the Cry Macho novel that was eventually cancelled.

[1] Nash wrote a number of screenplays, novels and more plays, including the screenplays for the 1947 Ann Sheridan film noir vehicle, Nora Prentiss, The Sainted Sisters (1948), Dear Wife (1949), Mara Maru (1952), Helen of Troy (1956), Porgy and Bess (1959), and later One Summer Love (1976) and Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985).

Other Broadway shows include Girls of Summer (1956), Handful of Fire (1958), Wildcat (1960, starring Lucille Ball), 110 in the Shade (1963; revived in 2007), The Happy Time (1968, nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical), and Saravà (1979).