March 14, 1975 –
Melvin Frank’s film adaptation of Neil Simon’s comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue, starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft, opened in NYC, on this date.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue play was inspired by real life events relating to one of writer Neil Simon’s relatives, his then wife’s uncle. The man was a businessman who wanted to set-up his own little newspaper in a small town. The venture failed, the uncle went bankrupt and had a nervous breakdown.
The Haus of Dcaligari 