Samson Raphaelson

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 Hitchcocks 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 soundondisc process Samson Raphaelson was also Ernst Lubitschs favorite screenwriter Samson Raphaelson considered Suspicion to be in many ways my best screenplay Raphaelson also cowrote Lubitschs only soundera 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 19042005 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Samson Raphaelson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia