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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1893-06-09
- event Death Date 1973-09-09
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 1.7
- info Birth Place Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by S. N. Behrman
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934-12-20
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Quo Vadis
1951-11-08
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Waterloo Bridge
1940-05-17
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A Tale of Two Cities
1935-12-25
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Anna Karenina
1935-08-30
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Two-Faced Woman
1941-12-31
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933-02-03
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Gaby
1956-05-09
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Fanny
1961-06-28
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Tess of the Storm Country
1932-11-20
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Conquest
1937-10-22
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Queen Christina
1933-12-26
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The Cowboy and the Lady
1938-11-17
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The Pirate
1948-06-11
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My Lips Betray
1933-11-04
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Parnell
1937-06-04
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Liliom
1930-09-27
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Liliom
1930-09-27
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Surrender
1931-12-06
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Daddy Long Legs
1931-06-05
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
1935-01-04
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Brief Moment
1933-09-29
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Lightnin'
1930-11-28
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Love Affair
1939-04-07
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As Husbands Go
1934-01-27
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1932-07-03
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The Brat
1931-08-23
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The Man Who Came Back
1931-01-11
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Me and the Colonel
1958-10-01
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The Sea Wolf
1930-09-21