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George Axelrod
17 credited titles on WatchWise
George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. Axelrod was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's and also adapted Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
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Commercial performance
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1.6x return · 79% of films profitable · trending down · little recent work. Weighted toward recent releases (a film counts half as much every 6 years) and toward titles they actually carried.
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