KnowraElaine MayLinked fromLinked fromThe 7 pages that link to Elaine May, each with the reason it gives.All 7Related 7Mike NicholsRelated: Their improvisational partnership made Nichols famous before he began directing for stage and screen.Warren BeattyRelated: May co-wrote Heaven Can Wait with Beatty and later worked with him on the screenplay for Reds.John CassavetesRelated: May’s actor-centered independent filmmaking offers a close parallel to Cassavetes’s work.Women in comedyRelated: Her career joined improvisational performance with influential writing and directing.The BirdcageRelated: Her adaptation relocates the farce to Miami and gives it an American political backdrop.Walter MatthauRelated: May directed Matthau in A New Leaf, casting him as a comic antihero.Stiller and MearaRelated: Her improvisational partnership offers a close contemporary comparison to Stiller and Meara.