With or Without a Song

Edward Eliscu has lived three celebrated lives for much of this century-on Broadway in Hollywood and in Connecticut. Known among his peers as the exemplary professional lyricist and to many others as a trenchant and witty playwright screenwriter performer director essayist critic poet and political polemicist Eliscu is best known to the general public as the writer of such memorable songs as <I>Without a Song</I> <I>More Than You Know</I> <I>Great Day</I> <I>Carioca</I> and <I>Flying Down to Rio</I>. As a screenwriter he wrote more than twenty films and adapted many prestigious dramatic plays for live television. This memoir is an exciting personal history of an artist with a conscience his era and the places he lived.