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Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man (1932), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Laura (1944), and Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946).
In addition, Hoffenstein, along with Cole Porter and Kenneth Webb, helped compose the musical score for Gay Divorce (1933), the stage musical that became the film The Gay Divorcee (1934).
He died in Los Angeles, California. A book of his verse, Pencil in the Air, was published three days after his death to critical acclaim. Another book of his work was published in 1928, titled Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing. The book contained some of his work that had been formerly published in the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Stories.
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06 March 1946
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live.
08 June 1948
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
15 March 1934
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him.
26 May 1939
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
15 February 1936
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
13 May 1932
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
11 October 1944
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
28 August 1942
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
22 August 1934
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie.
12 August 1943
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
02 June 1946
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
12 August 1941
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr.
04 November 1938
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
24 December 1931
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil.
11 April 1936
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France.
05 August 1942
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it.
19 July 1933
After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love.
05 July 1935
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati).
18 September 1941
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her.
22 August 1931
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
18 August 1932
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
22 October 1937
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.
12 September 1935
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
26 November 1943
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
18 May 1934
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.
10 November 1933
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous.
09 March 1936
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill.
29 October 1943
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
01 February 1935
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharing it with three women.
28 March 1947
Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.
07 November 1931
A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris.
