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Born to a Jewish family as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
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1963 - Popular Library - Movie Tie In Paperback - A Child Is Waiting - By Abby Mann - United Artists - Stars: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands : Screenplay by Abby Mann - Director: John Cassavetes - Book appears to have not been read - Collectible - Out of Print
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The Nuremberg trials brought to public attention the worst of the Nazi atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg brings those trials to life. The Nuremberg trials brought to public attention the worst of the Nazi atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg brings those trials to life. Abby Mann's riveting drama Judgment at Nuremberg not only brought some of the worst Nazi atrocities to public attention, but has become, along with Elie Wiesel's Night and Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, one of the twentieth century's most important records of the Holocaust. Originally written as a 1957 television play, later made into an Academy Award winning 1961 film, and available now for the first time in print (using the text of Mann's recent Broadway adaptation), Judgment at Nuremberg is as potent and relevant as ever. To this day the Nuremberg trials stand as a model for international criminal tribunals, due in large measure to the spotlight thrown on them by Mann's dramatic interpretation of the historic events. Mann's overwhelming compassion strikes at the heart of human suffering―his achievement has been to reaffirm humanity and justice in the wake of unspeakable evil.
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Born to a Jewish family as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants.
He was best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama. His best known work is the screenplay for, which was initially a television drama which aired in 1959. In his acceptance speech, he said: "A writer worth his salt at all has an obligation not only to entertain but to comment on the world in which he lives." Mann later adapted the play for a 2001 production on Broadway, which featured Maximilian Schell from the 1961 film in a different role.
In the introduction to the printed script, Mann credited a conversation with Abraham Pomerantz, United States. Chief Deputy Counsel, for giving him the initial interest in Nuremberg.
Mann and Kramer also collaborated on the film A Child is Waiting (1963). Working for television, he created the television series Kojak, starring Telly Savalas.
Mann was executive producer, but was credited as a writer also on many episodes. His other writing credits include the screenplays for the television films The Marcus-Nelson Murders, The Atlanta Child Murders, Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story, and Indictment: The McMartin Trial, as well as the film War and Love.
He also directed the 1978 National Broadcasting Company television miniseries King.
He died of heart failure in Beverly Hills, California on March 25, 2008, aged 80. He died one day after Richard Widmark, one of the stars of Judgment at Nuremberg. Mann is interred in Culver City"s Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.
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