Leonard Spigelgass
- Sceneggiatura
- 26 novembre 1908 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
- 15 febbraio 1985
Biografia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter. Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Spigelgass got his start collaborating on the script for Erich Von Stroheim's Hello, Sister! (1933). Additional screen credits include The Big Street (1942), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Silk Stockings (1957), Pepe (1960), and Gypsy (1962). Spigelgass signed on as a staff writer for Universal Studios in 1938 and was a colonel in the US Army Signal Corps. Spigelgass also was a playwright and penned such dramas as Dear Me the Sky Is Falling, The Wrong Way Light Bulb, and A Remedy for Winter, the comedy A Majority of One, and the book for the musical Look to the Lilies. He also wrote plays for such television series as Playhouse 90 and the novels Million Dollar Baby and Fed to the Teeth. During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for eleven Academy Award-winning films. He himself was nominated in 1950 for the story for Mystery Street and garnered three Writers Guild of America nominations over the course of his career. Spigelgass' sister, Beulah Roth, was a political speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, and was married to photographer Sanford H. Roth, a close friend of James Dean. Spigelgass died in Los Angeles, California.
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Filmografia
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- Le pont japonais · Sceneggiatura
- Cyrano · Sceneggiatura
- La donna che inventò lo strip-tease · Sceneggiatura
- The Merv Griffin Show · In persona
- Il molto onorevole ministro · Sceneggiatura, Theatre Play
- Pepe · Soggetto
- La bella di Mosca · Sceneggiatura
- 10.000 camere da letto · Sceneggiatura
- One Coat of White · Sceneggiatura
- Eloise · Sceneggiatura
- Playhouse 90 · Sceneggiatura
- MGM Parade · Regia
- Così parla il cuore · Sceneggiatura
- Athena e le 7 sorelle · Sceneggiatura
- L'orfana senza sorriso · Sceneggiatura
- Da quando sei mia · Sceneggiatura
- L'avventuriera · Sceneggiatura
- Solitudine · Sceneggiatura
- La strada del mistero · Soggetto
- Ero uno sposo di guerra · Sceneggiatura
- Amarti è la mia dannazione · Sceneggiatura
- Un matrimonio ideale · Sceneggiatura
- Ho salvato l'America · Soggetto
- The Youngest Profession · Sceneggiatura
- Dedizione · Sceneggiatura, Produzione
- Butch Minds the Baby · Sceneggiatura
- Sesta colonna · Soggetto, Sceneggiatura
- Tight Shoes · Sceneggiatura
- Million Dollar Baby · Soggetto
- One Night in the Tropics · Associate Producer
- Private Affairs · Sceneggiatura
- Unexpected Father · Soggetto
- Service de Luxe · Sceneggiatura
- Letter of Introduction · Sceneggiatura
- Princess O'Hara · Associate Producer
- I'll Fix It · Sceneggiatura
- Stingari il bandito sentimentale · Adaptation
- Scendendo lungo Broadway · Scenario Writer