(1927, with Howard Dietz to music by Henry Souvaine and Jay Gorney) Animal Crackers (1929, with George S. Kaufman to music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby) Ned Wayburn's Gambols (1929, lyricist with music by Walter G. Samuels) Strike up the Band (1930, bookwriter with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin) The Gang's All Here (1931, contributing bookwriter) Of Thee I Sing (1931, with George S. Kaufman to music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin) - Pulitzer Prize for Drama) Pardon My English (1933, with Herbert Fields to music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin) Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933 sequel to Of Thee I Sing, with George S. Kaufman to music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin) Louisiana Purchase (1941, bookwriter to music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, later, a film starring Bob Hope) The Lady Comes Across (1942, theatre director) Filmography The Cocoanuts (1929, starring the Marx Brothers) Animal Crackers (1930, starring the Marx Brothers) A Night at the Opera (1935, starring the Marx Brothers) My Man Godfrey (1936) - Oscar nomination Stage Door (1937) - Oscar nomination Room Service (1938, starring the Marx Brothers) Man About Town (1939) His Girl Friday (1940), movie version of The Front Page Penny Serenade (1941) Claudia (1943) Where Do We Go From Here? (1945) It's in the Bag! (1945), starring Fred Allen Bibliography George S. Kaufman et al., Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies, Laurence Maslon, ed. (New York: The Library of America, 2004 ; includes Animal Crackers and Of Thee I Sing) Animal Crackers (1928, with George S. Kaufman, New York: Samuel French's Musical Library, 1984 ) Of Thee I Sing (1931, with George S. Kaufman and Ira Gershwin, New York: Knopf. 1932; Samuel French's Musical Library, 1963 ) Let 'Em Eat Cake (1933, with George S. Kaufman and Ira Gershwin, New York: Knopf. 1933) I Shot an Elephant in My Pajamas: the Morrie Ryskind Story (with John H. M. Roberts, Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1994 ) References External links Morrie Ryskind papers, 1911–1985, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1895 births 1985 deaths 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights Activists from New York (state) American anti-war activists American male screenwriters American musical theatre librettists American musical theatre lyricists American people of Russian-Jewish descent American political activists Columbia University alumni Jewish American