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Sundgaard, Arnold Olaf was born on October 31, 1909 in St. Paul. Son of Olaf Johannes Sundgaard and Borghild Marie Pehrson.
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Sundgaard, Arnold Olaf was born on October 31, 1909 in St. Paul. Son of Olaf Johannes Sundgaard and Borghild Marie Pehrson.
He attended Johnson Senior High School in Saint Paul, where he played football with Warren East. Burger. He then attended the University of Wisconsin, graduating with a bachelor"s degree in English in 1935. He also studied at the Yale Drama School.
Sundgaard was best known for his role in the production of six Broadway plays. He taught drama at a number of schools, including Columbia University, Bennington College, and the University of Texas. Sundgaaard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of music research in 1951.
Sundgaard worked with the Federal Theatre Project early in his career.
In 1938 the Project produced, as part of the Living Newspaper series, his play Spirochete: A History, about the spread of syphilis. The play, the writing of which had been encouraged by Susan Glaspell, was a hit in Chicago at its premiere, but met with tremendous protest upon its transfer to Philadelphia.
His first play for Broadway was a collaboration with Marc Connelly. Titled Everywhere I Roam, it lasted 13 performances in 1938 and 1939.
T. Edward Hambleton (1953-2005) produced his plays The First Crocus in 1942 and The Great Campaign in 1947.
Each lasted five performances only. Of Love Remembered appeared in 1967, directed by Burgess Meredith and starring Ingrid Thulin. Sundgaard wrote the libretti for close to a dozen operas and musicals by composers such as Alec Wilder, Douglas Moore, and Kurt Weill.
In 1952 he wrote The Lowland Sea with Wilder.
In 1948 he and Weill collaborated on the folk opera Down in the Valley, and in 1944 he and Leonard Louis Levinson (1904-1974), wrote the book for Rhapsody, a collaboration with Fritz Kreisler and John Latouche. Another opera with Moore, Gallantry, a parody of television soap operas, was premiered by the Columbia University School of Music in 1958.
With Victor Ziskin he wrote the short-lived The Young Abe Lincoln, which played briefly on Broadway in 1961. Sundgaard was also a lyricist, writing the lyrics to several songs by Wilder.
"How Lovely is Christmas" was recorded by Bing Crosby.
"Where Do You Go?" was recorded by Frank Sinatra and released on his 1959 album Number One Cares. Besides theatrical work, Sundgaard wrote nonfiction for The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. With Eric Carle, he also wrote children"s books, such as The Lamb and the Butterfly of 1988.
His The Bear who Loved Puccini, published in 1992, was illustrated by Dominic Catalano.
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Member American Society of Composers, Dramatists Guild, Songwriters Guild, Authors Guild, Pen West. Clubs: Century (New York ).
Married Margaret Christianson, January 3, 1929 (divorced). Children: Joy, Jill; married Marge Kane, January 17, 1940 (deceased 1998). Children: Stephen, Jeremy.