University of Illinois alumnus Samson Raphaelson worked as an English Literature professor, an advertising man, and a New York Times crime reporter before turning to playwriting. Raphaelson's most famous Broadway effort was 1926's The Jazz Singer, which was subsequently adapted for the screen three times. Another of his theatrical works, Accent on Youth, was likewise thrice-filmed: first under its original title in 1935, and then in 1950 and 1959, as respectively Mr. Music and But Not For Me. Other Raphaelson plays to make the transition to films included Hilda Crane, A Rose Is Not a Rose (as 1951's Bannerline), and Skylark, which Raphaelson had adapted for the stage from his own novel The Streamlined Heart. Among his screenwriting credits were several Lubitsch pictures (Trouble in Paradise, Shop Around the Corner, Heaven Can Wait), Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941), and The Perfect Marriage (1946), which he also produced. Samson Raphaelson was the uncle of writer/director Bob Rafelson.
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The Jazz Singer
Play Author |
1980 | |||
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But Not for Me
Play Author |
1959 | |||
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The Jazz Singer
Play Author |
1959 | |||
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Hilda Crane
Play Author |
1956 | |||
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Main Street to Broadway
Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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The Jazz Singer
Play Author |
1953 | |||
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Bannerline
Screen Story |
1951 | |||
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Mr. Music
Play Author |
1950 | |||
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In the Good Old Summertime
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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That Lady in Ermine
Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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Green Dolphin Street
Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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The Harvey Girls
Screenwriter |
1946 | |||
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The Perfect Marriage
Play Author |
1946 | |||
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Ziegfeld Follies
Screenwriter |
1946 | |||
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Heaven Can Wait
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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Skylark
Play Author |
1941 | |||
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Suspicion
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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The Shop Around the Corner
Screenwriter |
1940 | |||
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Angel
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Accent on Youth
Play Author |
1935 | |||
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Dressed to Thrill
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Ladies Love Danger
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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The Runaway Queen
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Caravan
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Servants' Entrance
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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The Merry Widow
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Broken Lullaby
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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One Hour with You
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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Trouble in Paradise
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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The Magnificent Lie
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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The Smiling Lieutenant
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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The Jazz Singer
Play Author |
1927 |

