Samuel Hoffenstein
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-10-09 (57 years old)
Deathday
1947-10-06
Place of Birth
Kera, Russia
Also known As
Sam Hoffenstein
Samuel Hoffenstein
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These 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 (194...
Production
1944
as Screenplay
1931
as Screenplay
1941
as Screenplay
1932
as Screenplay
1938
as Screenplay
1943
as Screenplay
1932
as Writer
1941
as Screenplay
1933
as Screenplay
1943
as Screenplay
1936
as Screenplay
1935
as Screenplay
1935
as Writer
1946
as Screenplay
1934
as Screenplay
1931
as Writer
1937
as Writer
1936
as Screenplay
1947
as Writer
1948
as Writer
1942
as Writer
1946
as Screenplay
1939
as Screenplay
1943
as Screenplay
1936
as Writer
1942
as Writer
1935
as Writer
1933
as Writer
1931
as Screenplay
1934
as Screenplay
1934
as Additional Dialogue
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