Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson · Arts & Literature
Wrote the play behind The Jazz Singer and Lubitsch classics (The Shop Around the Corner)
1894, New York City, USA — 1983, New York City, USA
United States
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Raphaelson was a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter whose story and play 'The Day of Atonement' became 'The Jazz Singer' (1927), the first feature-length talking picture, drawing on the world of the cantor and Jewish assimilation. He went on to write elegant screenplays for Ernst Lubitsch, including 'The Shop Around the Corner' and 'Trouble in Paradise'. He was born to a Jewish family in New York City.
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Wrote the play behind The Jazz Singer and Lubitsch classics (The Shop Around the Corner)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters
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