Samson Raphaelson

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born: 30/Mar/1894 (New York, USA)
died: 16/Jul/1983 (New York, USA)

[edit] Biography

Samson Raphaelson was a screenwriter and playwright.

Born in New York City, he worked on nine films with Ernst Lubitsch, including "Trouble in Paradise", "The Shop Around the Corner" and "Heaven Can Wait". He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on "Suspicion". He is the author of the play "The Jazz Singer", which was made into the first ever talking picture.

In 1977 the Screen Writers Guild granted him the Laurel Award for lifetime achievement.

Samson Raphaelson considered Suspicion, for Alfred Hitchcock, "in many ways my best screenplay.".

He taught playwrighting at Columbia University up until the last years of his life. His wife Dorshka (Dorothy Wegman) was the author of "Morning Song" and, until her death in 2005, was the second oldest surviving Ziegfeld Follies Dancer. His nephew is filmmaker Bob Rafelson, and his grandson is photographer Paul Raphaelson.

(Wikipedia)