Morrie Ryskind

Wrote for the Marx Brothers — The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera, Room Service — and, with George S. Kaufman and George Gershwin, won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical Of Thee I Sing. He also picked up two Academy Award nominations, for My Man Godfrey and Stage Door. In 1947 he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee as a friendly witness, contributing to the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten; he said he never sold another screenplay afterward.