Background
Raphaelson, Samson was born on March 30, 1896 in New York City. Son of Ralph and Anna (Marks) Raphaelson.
Raphaelson, Samson was born on March 30, 1896 in New York City. Son of Ralph and Anna (Marks) Raphaelson.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Illinois, 1917. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Columbia University, 1981. Reporter City News Service, 1917-1918.
With Chicago advertising agys., 1918-1920. Instructor English University of Illinois, 1920-1921, visiting professor creative writing, 1948. Adjunct Professor drama and film divisions Columbia University, from 1976.
Short story writer, from 1915, playwright, from 1925, screen writer, from 1929, director, from 1933, contributing writer: films and television American Film and Film Comment, from 1975. Author: The Human Nature of Playwriting, 1949. Plays Jazz Singer, 1925, The Store, 1926, Young Love, 1928, The Magnificent Heel, 1930, The Wooden Slipper, 1933, Accent on Youth, 1935, Skylark, 1939, Jason, 1942, The Perfect Marriage, 1944, Hilda Crane, 1950, The Peanut Bag, 1967, Two Acts in October, 1974.
Screen plays The Crazy Americans. Author: screen plays That Lady in Ermine, Green Dolphin Street, Heaven Can Wait, Suspicion, The Shop Around the Corner, Trouble in Paradise, The Smiling Lieutenant, Broken Lullaby, One Hour With You, Angel. Author others; radio play General Armchair (in book Free World Theatre), 1944.
Contributor: fiction to New Yorker. Others.; Director: plays The Perfect Marriage. Stories included in Martha Foley’s Best American Stories, 1947 and in Editor’s Choice, 1948, Sat.
Eve. Post Best Stories, 1957. Other collections; entered photographic field, 1951.
Writer: films and television American Film and Film Comment, from 1975.
Member Dramatists’ Guild, Screen Writers’ Guild (Laurel award 1977).
Married Dorothy Wegman, December 24, 1927. Children: Joel, Naomi.