He had originally hoped to direct "Sweet Smell Of Success", based on his own novella, but fell ill and relinquished the task to Alexander Mackendrick. He did not direct for another fifteen years; his one film as director, "Portnoy's Complaint", was ...
[on writing "North by Northwest" (1959) for Alfred Hitchcock] I wanted to write the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures.
Ernie
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Ernest Paul Lehman
New York City, New York, USA
(age 89)
Los Angeles, California, USA