Frank Goodman

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Frank Goodman (5 May 1916 in New York City – 3 February 2006 in Manhattan) was an American Broadway theatre publicist.

Career

Goodman began in theatre during the

Works Projects Administration. From 1939, when he started his career, to 1961, Mr. Goodman represented more than 50 Broadway productions, including eight shows in 1960 alone. He also handled stars as varied as Jerome Robbins to Audrey Hepburn, and playwrights William Inge and Clifford Odets
.

In his early days as a publicist, he worked with

Gypsy and Mary Martin on The Sound of Music. Goodman claimed the producer David Merrick
once fired him from three shows at once for taking a rival's account.

He died of

. He was 89 years old.

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