Nate Monaster
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Nate Monaster
|birth_name = Nathan Monaster
|birth_date = {{birth date|1911|09|22}}
|birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1990|05|12|1911|09|22}}
|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|occupation = Screenwriter
|spouse = Gladys Monaster
|children = 3
}}
Nathan Monaster (September 22, 1911 – May 12, 1990) was an American scriptwriter. He wrote for radio, television, film and stage, and was president of Writers Guild of America from 1963 to 1965. The 1962 comedy That Touch of Mink, which he co-wrote with Stanley Shapiro, won the Writers Guild of America Award win for Best Written American Comedy,{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |work=Writers Guild of America |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=2012-12-05 |access-date=2010-06-06 |language=en}} and was nominated for an Academy Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-18-mn-211-story.html|title=Nathan Monaster; TV, Film Writer|website=Los Angeles Times |date=18 May 1990 |access-date=April 21, 2021}}
Life and career
Monaster was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He started his career writing for radio shows such as Duffy's Tavern and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWSGaEnR4ToC&pg=PA103|title=Sit, Ubu, Sit|page=103|date=February 5, 2008|publisher=Crown|isbn=9780307407405}} He then moved into work on television shows including The Donna Reed Show, Bachelor Father, The Milton Berle Show, The Real McCoys and Hey, Jeannie!. Monaster also taught writing at San Diego State University, where he taught Gary David Goldberg whose early career he encouraged.{{Cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/la-me-gary-david-goldberg-20130625-story.html|title=Gary David Goldberg dies at 68; producer of sitcom 'Family Ties'|access-date=April 21, 2021}}
Monaster was president of Writers Guild of America from 1963 to 1965.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history/past-presidents/nate-monaster|title=Nate Monaster|access-date=April 21, 2021}} He wrote a Broadway play in 1964, Something More!, which was based on the 1962 novel Portofino P.T.A., by Gerald Green.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/11/archives/theater-something-more-a-musical-opens-arthur-hill-and-barbara-cook.html|title=Theater: 'Something More!,' a Musical, Opens; Arthur Hill and Barbara Cook at the O'Neill|work=The New York Times |date=11 November 1964 |access-date=April 21, 2021}} Working with Harry Winkler, Monaster also wrote the 1969 television film Three's a Crowd, which starred Larry Hagman, Jessica Walter and E. J. Peaker.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVCFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA325|title=The ABC Movie of the Week|page=325|publisher=Scarescrow Press|date=August 22, 2013|isbn=9780810891579}}
Monaster died of heart failure at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 78.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/19/obituaries/mathan-monaster-scriptwriter-74.html|title=Mathan Monaster, Scriptwriter, 74|work=The New York Times |date=19 May 1990 |access-date=April 21, 2021}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0597578}}
- {{IBDB name|7869}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/nate_monaster/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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Category:Screenwriters from Chicago
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American male television writers