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Name
  
Jerome Kass

Role
  
Screenwriter


Spouse
  
Delia Ephron (m. 1982)

Plays
  
Ballroom

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Died
  
October 22, 2015, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Movies
  
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

Books
  
Saturday Night, Four Short Plays

Similar People
  
Delia Ephron, Maureen Stapleton, Billy Goldenberg, Charles Durning, Michael Bennett

Last Wish (1992)


Jerome Allan Kass (April 21, 1937 – October 22, 2015) was an American screenwriter and author. He wrote Queen of the Stardust Ballroom in 1975 and Ballroom in 1978, which were nominated for an Emmy and Tony, respectively.

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Biography

Jerome Kass was born in Chicago to Sidney Kass and Celia Gorman, and had two sisters, Francine and Gail. The family moved to the Bronx, where Kass went to school, attending Stuyvesant High School before graduating from New York University. He entered the graduate program for English, then transferred to Brandeis University.

He was married to Artha Schwartz, with whom he had two children, Julie and Adam. They later divorced, and Kass married Delia Ephron in 1982. Kass died of prostate cancer in Manhattan on October 22, 2015.

Selected filmography

  • A Brand New Life (1973)
  • Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975)
  • Ballroom (1978)
  • My Old Man (1979)
  • The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
  • References

    Jerome Kass Wikipedia