Synopsis
Dying for Laughs
Published by Samuel French Inc
5 Male 2 Female
Marty's girlfriend Lee is determined to get all of them jobs writing for dipsomaniac comedienne Stephanie Smart, who wants to bring her fame to film and television
But Smart is too drunk to deliver and supposedly jumps off the 59th Street Bridge. Sudden plot twists involve a rhyming mobster named Vincent the Horse who comes to collect and falls for Lee, Stephanie's manager and his so called wife, the 65 year old son of the owner of the Concord Hotel where Smart broke her engagement and Smart's lying bother
"A solid, urbane and very funny domestic comedy in the Neil Simon mode.... A beautifully timed, spring heeled . . . comedy" ~ L.A. Times