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Miklos Laszlo (May 20, 1903 – April 19, 1973) was a playwright and naturalized American citizen born in Budapest, Hungary. He is best remembered for his play ''Illatszertár'', also known as ''Parfumerie'', which was used as the storyline for three movies, ''The Shop Around the Corner'', ''In the Good Old Summertime'', and, most recently, ''You've Got Mail''. The play also was adapted for the Broadway stage as the musical ''She Loves Me''. ==Early life== Nicholaus Leitner (Laszlo) was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1903, to a family of German Jewish extraction. Emperor Franz Josef ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Great War was still a few years away, and it had been decreed by the government that all ethnic non-Magyar (non-Hungarian) citizens should take an indigenous name as part of the "cultural unification" of the population. The name "László" was chosen for the Leitner family. No particular reason is known other than that it was a well-known Hungarian name and that it was similar (vaguely) to the original family name "Leitner". Henrik and Ilona Fischer Leitner therefore gave to their infant son on his birth certificate the name Leitner László Nicholaus, last name first as is the custom in Hungary. Niki grew up in the hustle and bustle of wartime Budapest. His family was in the entertainment business, and he naturally gravitated toward a career in entertainment as well. He was a clever and witty lad, always amusing friends and family with his quips and characterizations. He rubbed elbows with the Hungarian literati of the day including Ferenc Molnár the playwright, whose most famous work ''Liliom'' is known to English speaking audiences as the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''Carousel''. It only made sense then that Niki was encouraged to put pen to paper and as a young adult began to produce his own little one-scene plays for the various small theatres and cabarets around the city. These "little plays" became his fame and provided spare income to support his "young man with possibilities" lifestyle. It even afforded him the time to work on some larger more comprehensive works which he would eventually complete as full multi-act plays. Money was no issue for the young László. His father continued to do very well with his own business endeavors and at one point, anecdotal information describes the father as one of the wealthiest men in Hungary. But tragically, poor management, high living and wild spending brought the family to total destitution. And then unexpectedly his father died and Nicholas was left as the sole provider for his mother and eight siblings. Writing was not sufficient to feed a family and pay the bills, so Niki turned to a host of jobs, none too small to earn the pay that was necessary to keep the family afloat. As he told it, he worked as a candy-maker, collar salesman, necktie agent, script typist, clerk and even worked as a laborer in a petroleum factory while siblings grew up and gradually took responsibility for their own lives and livelihoods. It came then as a great satisfaction that his first three-act play, ''A legboldogabb ember'', ''The Happiest Man'', an ironically titled play about an embittered factory worker and the dreamworld to which he escapes for solace, won him the prestigious Hungarian Royal Academy Award for Literature in 1934, the Hungarian equivalent of the American Pulitzer Prize – quite an achievement for a man barely into his 30s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miklós László」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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