Samuel Hoffenstein

Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) lo que a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, pp emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and the entertainment business. En 1931 he moved to de Los Ángeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and where he wrote the scripts for over thirty películas. Tesis movies included Dr. Jekyll and mr Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man (1932), Phantom of the Opera "(1943), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Laura (1944), and Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946). En suma, Hoffenstein, along with Cole Porter and Kenneth Webb, ayudado compose the musical score for Gay Divorce (1933), the stage musical that became the film The Gay Divorcee (1934). He died en Los Ángeles, California. A book of his versos, Pencil in the Air, lo que published three days after his death to critical acclaim. Another book of his work lo publicado en 1928, titled Poema en Elogio de Practically Nothing. The book contained some of his work that had been formerly publicado en el the New York World, the New York Tribune, Vanity Fair, the D. A. C. News, and Snappy Historias.