S. N. Behrman

Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (June 9, 1893 – Septembre 9, 1973) que l'American playwright, scénariste, 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 qui a tenement à Worcester, Massachusetts, en 1893. From the late 1920s through the 1940s, S. N. Behrman ce que considered one of Broadway s leading les auteurs de "haute comédie," ce qui often produced by the famous Theatre Guild, and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Cowl and the acting équipe d'Alfred Lunt et Lynn Fontanne, who became his good friends. À Hollywood, Behrman enjoyed a lucrative second career as a scénariste. He wrote screenplays for Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina, Conquest, and her final du film, Two-Faced Woman. With Sonya Levien, he co-wrote the screen play for the 1930 film version of Ferenc Molnár s Liliom, mettant en vedette Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. His experiences dans Hollywood found dramatic forme dans the play Let Me Hear the Melody (1951), a failure that closed en pré-Broadway tryouts. He also collaborated on the screenplays for Anna Karénine (1935), " A Tale of Two Cities (1935), and Waterloo Bridge (1940). S. N. Behrman died in 1973 at the age of eighty.