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Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 in New York City – July 16, 1983 in New York City) was an American screenwriter and playwright.
Born in New York City, Raphaelson worked on nine films with Ernst Lubitsch, including Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Shop Around the Corner (1939), Heaven Can Wait (1943), and That Lady in Ermine (1948). He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941). He is the author of the play Day of Atonement, which was made into The Jazz Singer (1927), the first talking picture, produced by Warner Brothers in the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. Samson Raphaelson was also Ernst Lubitsch's favorite screenwriter.
Samson Raphaelson considered Suspicion to be "in many ways my best screenplay." Raphaelson also co-wrote Lubitsch's only sound-era drama Broken Lullaby (The Man I Killed, 1932). Though praised by playwright Robert E. Sherwood as "the best talking picture that has yet been seen and heard," the film was a box office flop. Aside from his more popular work, Raphaelson also wrote the college fight song for the University of Illinois in 1921. Titled, "Fight, Illini!: The Stadium Song" the music was composed by Rose J. Oltusky.
In 1977 the Writers Guild of America Awards granted him the "Laurel" for lifetime achievement. He taught playwriting at Columbia University until the last years of his life. His wife Dorshka (Dorothy Wegman) (1904-2005) 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.
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25 September 1934
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid. After the usual trials and tribulations, Hedda falls in love with humble chauffeur Eric Landstrom.
18 December 1998
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
08 December 1950
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical.
12 October 1953
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home.
12 January 1940
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
01 August 1931
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
25 July 1931
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
14 February 1953
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
25 October 1934
Princess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi, offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent.
17 December 1980
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
14 November 1941
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts.
05 August 1943
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy.
19 August 1959
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game.
06 October 1927
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
18 January 1946
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
24 January 1932
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France.
30 October 1932
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer.
29 October 1937
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
12 October 1951
A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.
30 December 1934
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
15 January 1947
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William.
19 February 1937
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
23 August 1935
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss' son falls for her.
24 August 1948
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army.
23 March 1932
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances.
02 November 1934
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
29 July 1949
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
22 November 1982
An interview with playwright and screenwriter Samson Raphaelson. First aired on PBS's "Creativity with Bill Moyers".
24 January 1947
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court.
08 May 1956
After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
01 March 1934
Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country.
08 October 1935
Dressed to Thrill is a 1935 American musical film directed by Harry Lachman and written by Samson Raphaelson.
13 October 1959
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
03 May 1935
A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the apartment of Ricardo Souchet, a rich bachelor.
