S. N. Behrman

Sceneggiatore

9 giugno 1893 — 9 settembre 1973 (80 anni)
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (June 9, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for The New Yorker. His son is the composer David Behrman.

Behrman's family immigrated from what is now Lithuania to the United States, where Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born, the youngest of three sons, in a tenement in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893.

From the late 1920s through the 1940s, S. N. Behrman was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy," was often produced by the famous Theatre Guild, and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Cowl, and the acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who became his good friends. In Hollywood, Behrman enjoyed a lucrative second career as a screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina, Conquest, and her final film, Two-Faced Woman. With Sonya Levien, he co-wrote the screen play for the 1930 film version of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. His experiences in Hollywood found dramatic form in the play Let Me Hear the Melody (1951), a failure that closed in pre-Broadway tryouts. He also collaborated on the screenplays for Anna Karenina (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), and Waterloo Bridge (1940).

S. N. Behrman died in 1973 at the age of eighty. He was survived by his wife, Elza Heifetz Behrman, the sister of violinist Jascha Heifetz, whom he had married in his forties, and a son

Film e Serie su Plex

  • Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur1959
  • Quo Vadis
    Quo Vadis1951
  • Un grande amore
    Un grande amore1939
  • Le due città
    Le due città1935
  • Fanny
    Fanny1961
  • La dama e il cowboy
    La dama e il cowboy1938

Famoso per

  • Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur1959
  • Quo Vadis
    Quo Vadis1951
  • Il ponte di Waterloo
    Il ponte di Waterloo1940
  • Fanny
    Fanny1961
  • La primula rossa
    La primula rossa1934
  • La regina Cristina
    La regina Cristina1933
  • Le due città
    Le due città1935
  • Il pirata
    Il pirata1948
  • Maria Walewska
    Maria Walewska1937
  • Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina1935
  • Un grande amore
    Un grande amore1939
  • Non tradirmi con me
    Non tradirmi con me1941
  • Io e il colonnello
    Io e il colonnello1958
  • Non è tempo da commedia
    Non è tempo da commedia1940
  • La dama e il cowboy
    La dama e il cowboy1938
  • Gaby
    Gaby1956

Filmografia

1959
Ben-Hur · as Contributing WriterSu Plex
1958
Me and the Colonel · as Screenplay
1956
Gaby · as Screenplay
1955
1951
Quo Vadis · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1941
Two-Faced Woman · as Screenplay
1940
Waterloo Bridge · as Screenplay
1938
The Cowboy and the Lady · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1937
1937
Parnell · as Screenplay
1935
A Tale of Two Cities · as ScreenplaySu Plex
1934
1933
Hallelujah I'm a Bum · as Screenplay
1932
1932
1932
Society Girl · as Contributing Writer
1931
1931
1931
1931
1930
1930
Liliom · as Screenplay

1968
The Dick Cavett Show · as Self - GuestSu Plex

1961
Fanny · as Theatre PlaySu Plex
1957
Television World Theatre · as English Adaptation
1955
1951
Celanese Theatre · as Story
1950
1948
The Pirate · as Theatre Play
1947
Kraft Television Theatre · as Playwright
1940
No Time for Comedy · as From The Stage Play By
1939
Love Affair · as Contributor To ScreenplaySu Plex
1935
Anna Karenina · as Dialogue
1935
1933
Queen Christina · as Dialogue
1933
Brief Moment · as Author
1930
The Sea Wolf · as Dialogue
1930
He Knew Women · as Play "the Second Man"