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Elaine May

Elaine May

Elaine May (born April 21, 1932) is an American film director, screenwriter and actress. She achieved her greatest fame in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols. She is a two time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and also the mother of Oscar nominee Jeannie Berlin.

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Movies Starring Elaine May (16)

The Same Storm (2022)

Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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Small Time Crooks (2000)

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success. ...

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Nichols and May: Take Two (1996)

A documentary made for the PBS program American Masters about the comedy team Nichols and May. ...

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Wolf (1994)

An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job. ...

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In the Spirit (1990)

After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her apartment, and they end up being chased by a crazed killer. ...

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Calling the Shots (1988)

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts. ...

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California Suite (1978)

The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel. ...

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Mikey and Nicky (1976)

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. ...

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A New Leaf (1971)

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell. ...

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's ...

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All the Difference (1970)

From many distinguished American poets comes the connecting narrative for this gorgeously photographed treatise on America the Beautiful and America the Increasingly Ugly. ...

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The Graduate (1967)

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. ...

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Bach to Bach (1967)

A Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual conversation. Based on the Nichols and May sketch. ...

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Luv (1967)

Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's stopped by old friend Milt Manville, a successful stock broker. Milt, however, is facing his own problem: he has ...

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Enter Laughing (1967)

A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a nonpaying job in a seedy theatrical production directed by broken-down ham Marlowe. ...

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The Fabulous Fifties (1960)

The Fabulous Fifties, CBS, combines style, humor, and imagination. It was rich in touches of quality showmanship and equally rich in the memories of a decade which it revived. In recognition, the Peabody Television Award for entertainment is presented to T ...

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Movies Made By Elaine May (14)

Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)

With charm and wit, Nichols discusses his life and 50-year career as a performer and director. ...

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Down to Earth (2001)

Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure there's been a mistake. Miraculously, he's right! An angel tells Lance he was taken prematurely but assures ...

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Primary Colors (1998)

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorf ...

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The Birdcage (1996)

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents. ...

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Wolf (1994)

An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job. ...

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Ishtar (1987)

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime. ...

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Tootsie (1982)

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle. ...

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Reds (1981)

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of ...

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Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must ...

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Mikey and Nicky (1976)

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. ...

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The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

Three days into his Miami honeymoon with needy and unsophisticated Lila, Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms his fear that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants to be with Kelly instead. ...

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Such Good Friends (1971)

Julie Messinger, a repressed woman, grapples with her hidden passions when a routine hospital visit for her husband, Richard, spirals into chaos. As secrets unravel, her quest for authenticity clashes with societal expectations. ...

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A New Leaf (1971)

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell. ...

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Bach to Bach (1967)

A Bach recording plays in a New York apartment, while off-screen a man and a woman in bed together for the first time engage in pseudo-intellectual conversation. Based on the Nichols and May sketch. ...

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