S. N. Behrman

Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (June 9, 1893 – Septiembre 9, 1973), lo que es en 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, en a tenement en Worcester, Massachusetts, en 1893. From the late 1920s through the 1940s, S. N. Behrman lo que considered one of Broadway's leading los autores de "alta comedia", a lo often produced by the famous Theatre Guild, and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Chimenea, and the acting equipo de Alfred Lunt y Lynn Fontanne, who became his good friends. En Hollywood, Behrman disfrutado a lucrative segunda career as a screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina, Conquista, and her final de la película, Two-Faced Woman. With Sonya Levien, he co-wrote the screen play for the 1930 película, la versión de Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, protagonizada por Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. His experiencias en Hollywood found dramatic forma en the play Let Me Hear the Melody (1951), a failure that cerrado en pre-Broadway tryouts. Así que He collaborated on the screenplays for Anna Karenina (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), and Waterloo Bridge (1940). S. N. Behrman que murió en 1973 at the age of ochenta.