About

Known credits:
30
Birthday:
1893-06-09
Place of birth:
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Website:
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S. N. Behrman

Overview

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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

Known for

Writing
1961 Fanny Writing Theatre Play 59
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1958 Me and the Colonel Writing Screenplay 59
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1956 Gaby Writing Screenplay 59
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1951 Quo Vadis Writing Screenplay 64
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1948 The Pirate Writing Theatre Play 59
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1941 Two-Faced Woman Writing Screenplay 59
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1940 Waterloo Bridge Writing Screenplay 62
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1938 The Cowboy and the Lady Writing Screenplay 59
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1937 Conquest Writing Writer 59
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1937 Parnell Writing Screenplay 58
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1935 A Tale of Two Cities Writing Screenplay 60
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1935 Anna Karenina Writing Dialogue 59
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1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl Writing Author 59
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1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel Writing Writer 60
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1934 As Husbands Go Writing Writer N/A
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1933 Queen Christina Writing Dialogue 60
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1933 My Lips Betray Writing Writer N/A
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1933 Brief Moment Writing Author 58
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1933 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum Writing Screenplay 59
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1932 Tess of the Storm Country Writing Writer 59
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1932 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Writing Screenplay N/A
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1931 Surrender Writing Writer 58
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1931 The Brat Writing Writer 58
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1931 Daddy Long Legs Writing Writer 58
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1931 The Man Who Came Back Writing Writer 58
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1930 Lightnin' Writing Writer 58
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1930 Liliom Writing Screenplay 59
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1930 Liliom Writing Dialogue 59
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1930 The Sea Wolf Writing Dialogue N/A
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Crew
1939 Love Affair Crew Additional Writing 60
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