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Leonard Spigelgass
Writer, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
Born November 26, 1908Died February 15, 1985 (76 years)
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Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter.
Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Spigelgass got his start collaborating on the script for Erich Von Stroheim's Hello, Sister! (1933). Additional screen credits include The Big Street (1942), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Silk Stockings (1957), Pepe (1960), and Gypsy (1962).
Spigelgass signed on as a staff writer for Universal Studios in 1938 and was a colonel in the US Army Signal Corps.
Spigelgass also was a playwright and penned such dramas as Dear Me the Sky Is Falling, The Wrong Way Light Bulb, and A Remedy for Winter, the comedy A Majority of One, and the book for the musical Look to the Lilies. He also wrote plays for such television series as Playhouse 90 and the novels Million Dollar Baby and Fed to the Teeth.
During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for eleven Academy Award-winning films. He himself was nominated in 1950 for the story for Mystery Street and garnered three Writers Guild of America nominations over the course of his career.
Spigelgass' sister, Beulah Roth, was a political speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, and was married to photographer Sanford H. Roth, a close friend of James Dean. Spigelgass died in Los Angeles, California.
Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter.
Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Spigelgass got his start collaborating on the script for Erich Von Stroheim's Hello, Sister! (1933). Additional screen credits include The Big Street (1942), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Silk Stockings (1957), Pepe (1960), and Gypsy (1962).
Spigelgass signed on as a staff writer for Universal Studios in 1938 and was a colonel in the US Army Signal Corps.
Spigelgass also was a playwright and penned such dramas as Dear Me the Sky Is Falling, The Wrong Way Light Bulb, and A Remedy for Winter, the comedy A Majority of One, and the book for the musical Look to the Lilies. He also wrote plays for such television series as Playhouse 90 and the novels Million Dollar Baby and Fed to the Teeth.
During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for eleven Academy Award-winning films. He himself was nominated in 1950 for the story for Mystery Street and garnered three Writers Guild of America nominations over the course of his career.
Spigelgass' sister, Beulah Roth, was a political speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, and was married to photographer Sanford H. Roth, a close friend of James Dean. Spigelgass died in Los Angeles, California.
Known For
Leonard Spigelgass Filmography
| 1983 | |
| 1978 | |
| 1976 | |
| 1973 | |
| 1962 | |
| 1957 | Silk Stockings · as Screenplay |
| 1957 | |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 (TV Series) |
| 1954 | Deep in My Heart · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) |
| 1953 | |
| 1952 | Because You're Mine · as Screenplay |
| 1951 | |
| 1951 | Night Into Morning · as Screenplay |
| 1949 | I Was a Male War Bride · as Screenplay |
| 1948 | So Evil My Love · as Screenplay |
| 1946 | |
| 1943 | The Youngest Profession · as Screenplay |
| 1942 | The Big Street · as Screenplay |
| 1942 | Butch Minds the Baby · as Screenplay |
| 1942 | All Through the Night · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | The Boys from Syracuse · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | Private Affairs · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | |
| 1938 |
| 1979 | The Man You Loved to Hate · as Self |
| 1977 | The Hollywood Greats (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1942 | |
| 1940 | One Night in the Tropics · as Associate Producer |
| 1955 | MGM Parade (TV Series) |
| 1982 | The 54th Annual Academy Awards · as Written By |
| 1980 | The 52nd Annual Academy Awards · as Written By |
| 1972 | The ABC Afterschool Special (TV Series) · as Translated By |
| 1961 | A Majority of One · as Theatre Play |
| 1960 | Pepe · as Story |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Original Screenplay |
| 1950 | Mystery Street · as Story |
| 1949 | The Accused · as Contract Writer |
| 1943 | They Got Me Covered · as Original Story |
| 1941 | Million Dollar Baby · as Story |
| 1934 | Stingaree · as Adaptation |
| 1933 | Hello, Sister! · as Scenario Writer |