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Bernard Slade Newbound (May 2, 1930 – October 30, 2019) was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. As a screenwriter, he created the sitcoms The Flying Nun and The Partridge Family. As a playwright, he wrote Same Time, Next Year, Tribute, and Romantic Comedy and their film adaptations.
He received a Tony Award nomination for Same Time, Next Year, and an Academy Award nomination for the screen adaptation.
The following year, Slade developed The Flying Nun (adapted from Tere Rios' book, The Fifteenth Pelican), with Sally Field as a young novice whose habit's headgear enabled her to fly. After briefly leaving Screen Gems to work as a script supervisor on The Courtship of Eddie's Father for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he came back to Screen Gems to create The Partridge Family, based on the real-life Cowsills, and Bridget Loves Bernie, inspired by the play Abie's Irish Rose. He also wrote the script to the 1972 Columbia Pictures film Stand Up and Be Counted, directed by Jackie Cooper and starring Jacqueline Bisset, in which the Helen Reddy song "I Am Woman" was first introduced. The last show he created for Screen Gems before it changed its name to Columbia Pictures Television was The Girl with Something Extra.
Despite his success in television, Slade returned to the theater in 1975 with his play Same Time, Next Year, about a couple who are married to others but meet once-a-year for sex and conversation. With Charles Grodin and Ellen Burstyn in the leads, the play was a major hit and ran for 1,453 performances. Slade received the Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play.
In 1978, he followed with Tribute, the story of a man who learns to love his father, a successful actor who always had more time for his theatrical cohorts than his son. Even with Jack Lemmon heading the cast, it proved to be far less successful than its predecessor, closing after 212 performances. Slightly more successful was Romantic Comedy (1979), starring Anthony Perkins and Mia Farrow. Slade wrote the screenplays for the film versions of all three plays, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his screen adaptation of Same Time, Next Year." Broadway Playwright Bernard Slade Passes Away at 89". BroadwayWorld. October 30, 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2019. (Search: 'Slade, Bernard'). Academy Awards Database. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 24, 2019. Results: "1978 (51st). Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) -- Same Time, Next Year".
Book
Slade wrote an autobiography, Shared Laughter, published by Key Porter Books.
Personal life
Slade was married to actress Jill Foster from July 25, 1953 until her death on March 24, 2017. They had two children: Laurie Newbound and Christopher Newbound. Slade died from Lewy body dementia at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on October 30, 2019, at the age of 89.
Film
Television
Theatre
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Categories: 1930 Births, 2019 Deaths, 20th-century Canadian Dramatists And Playwrights, 20th-century Canadian Male Writers, 20th-century Canadian Screenwriters, Canadian Expatriate Writers In The United States, Canadian Male Dramatists And Playwrights, Canadian Male Screenwriters, Deaths From Lewy Body Dementia, Deaths From Dementia In California, People From St. Catharines, The Partridge Family, Screenwriters From Ontario
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