S. N. Behrman

Författare

9 juni 1893 — 9 september 1973 (80 år)
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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

Filmer och Serier på Plex

  • Det handlar om kärlek...
    Det handlar om kärlek...1939
  • Fanny
    Fanny1961
  • En cowboy och en lady
    En cowboy och en lady1938

Känd för

  • Ben-Hur
    Ben-Hur1959
  • Quo Vadis
    Quo Vadis1951
  • Dimmornas bro
    Dimmornas bro1940
  • I skuggan av giljotinen
    I skuggan av giljotinen1935
  • Fanny
    Fanny1961
  • Den röda nejlikan
    Den röda nejlikan1934
  • Drottning Kristina
    Drottning Kristina1933
  • Tvillingarna
    Tvillingarna1941
  • Piraten
    Piraten1948
  • En cowboy och en lady
    En cowboy och en lady1938
  • Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina1935
  • Det handlar om kärlek...
    Det handlar om kärlek...1939
  • Jag och översten
    Jag och översten1958
  • Min man har en väninna
    Min man har en väninna1940
  • Marie Walewska
    Marie Walewska1937
  • Gaby
    Gaby1956
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm1932

Filmografi

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 ScreenplayPå 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