The Star-Spangled Girl  
published: Random House, 1967 premiered: Plymouth Theatre, New York City, 1966
Star Spangled Girl is clearly and simply a failure, as far as I'm concerned. It's the only play I ever wrote where I did not have a clear visual image of the characters in my mind as I sat down at the typewriter. Walter Kerr wisely wrote, "Neil Simon didn't have an idea for a play this year, but he wrote it anyway." Thank you, Walter.

   NEIL SIMON
   Los Angeles, Nov. 7th, 1977
   (McGovern, 1979)

The Star-Spangled Girl
(Connie Stevens, Richard Benjamin, Anthony Perkins)
(photo-Joseph Abeles Studios)


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