S. N. Behrman

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1893-06-09 (80 years old)

Deathday

1973-09-09

Place of Birth

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

S. N. Behrman

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 C...

Production

1951

Quo Vadis

as Screenplay

1940

Waterloo Bridge

as Screenplay

1935

1935

Anna Karenina

as Dialogue

1941

Two-Faced Woman

as Screenplay

1933

1956

Gaby

as Screenplay

1961

Fanny

as Theatre Play

1937

Conquest

as Writer

1933

Queen Christina

as Dialogue

1938

1948

The Pirate

as Theatre Play

1933

1937

Parnell

as Screenplay

1930

Liliom

as Dialogue

1930

Liliom

as Screenplay

1931

Surrender

as Writer

1931

1933

Brief Moment

as Author

1930

Lightnin'

as Writer

1934

1939

Love Affair

as Additional Writing

1931

The Brat

as Writer

1958

Me and the Colonel

as Screenplay

1930

The Sea Wolf

as Dialogue

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