S. N. Behrman

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9 czerwca 1893 — 9 września 1973 (80 years)
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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

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Ukochany
    Ukochany1939
  • Fanny
    Fanny1961
  • Kowboj i dama
    Kowboj i dama1938

Known For

  • Ben Hur
    Ben Hur1959
  • Quo Vadis
    Quo Vadis1951
  • Pożegnalny walc
    Pożegnalny walc1940
  • Królowa Krystyna
    Królowa Krystyna1933
  • W cieniu gilotyny
    W cieniu gilotyny1935
  • Dwulicowa kobieta
    Dwulicowa kobieta1941
  • Pirat
    Pirat1948
  • Pani Walewska
    Pani Walewska1937
  • Szkarłatny kwiat
    Szkarłatny kwiat1934
  • Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina1935
  • Fanny
    Fanny1961
  • Ukochany
    Ukochany1939
  • Kowboj i dama
    Kowboj i dama1938
  • Jakobowsky i pułkownik
    Jakobowsky i pułkownik1958
  • No Time for Comedy
    No Time for Comedy1940
  • Gaby
    Gaby1956
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm1932

Filmografia

1959
Ben-Hur · as Contributing Writer
1958
Me and the Colonel · as Screenplay
1956
Gaby · as Screenplay
1955
1951
Quo Vadis · as Screenplay
1941
Two-Faced Woman · as Screenplay
1940
Waterloo Bridge · as Screenplay
1938
The Cowboy and the Lady · as ScreenplayNa Plex
1937
1937
Parnell · as Screenplay
1935
A Tale of Two Cities · as Screenplay
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