Jo Swerling

Joseph Swerling

Born April 18, 1893· Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]

† Died October 23, 1964

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A Ukrainian-born Jewish refugee who grew up on New York's Lower East Side, Joseph Swerling began his writing career in the early 1920s as a newspaper and magazine contributor, later penning the Marx Brothers' stage effort The Cinderella Girls and their unreleased silent short Humor Risk (1921). His first major theatrical success arrived with the 1927 revue The New Yorkers and the 1929 play The Kib… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources