Lesser Samuels (26 July 1894 – 22 December 1980) enjoyed a 20-year career as a Hollywood screenwriter. He is best known for back-to-back Oscar nominations...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Lesser Samuels 1951 (24th) An American in Paris Alan Jay Lerner‡ Ace in the Hole Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels & Billy Wilder David...

It hasn't aged because Wilder and his co-writers, Walter Newman and Lesser Samuels, were so lean and mean [with their dialogue] ... [Kirk Douglas'] focus...

Greenwillow is a musical with a book by Lesser Samuels and Frank Loesser and music and lyrics by Loesser. The musical is set in the magical town of Greenwillow...

critic Werner Lesser (1932–2005), East German ski jumper Lesser is also a given name. Notable people with the given name include: Lesser Samuels (1894–1980)...

tedious in other portions". Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post wrote, "Lesser Samuels' screen play meanders self-consciously and Victor Saville's direction...

film role was in the 1950 film No Way Out, adapted from a novel by Lesser Samuels. She played the mother of Dr. Luther Brooks, portrayed by Sidney Poitier...

debuts of Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith, and Ossie Davis. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels were also nominated for Best Story and Screenplay at the 23rd Academy...

by Michael Balcon with a screenplay by Sonnie Hale, Marion Dix and Lesser Samuels. It stars Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Margaret...

Schoenfeld The Men – Carl Foreman No Way Out – Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Lesser Samuels Best Writing (Motion Picture Story) Best Documentary (Feature) Panic...

Tonight and Every Night Directed by Victor Saville Written by Abem Finkel Lesser Samuels Based on Heart of a City 1942 play by Lesley Storm Produced by Victor...

How Could You! Directed by Mitchell Leisen Written by Dodie Smith Lesser Samuels Based on Alice Sit-by-the-Fire by J. M. Barrie Produced by Harry Tugend...

Shalva Lawrence Samuels (born 1970), American arena football player Lesser Samuels, (1894–1980), American screenwriter Lynn Samuels (1942–2011), American...

gentleman who saw fit to rewrite my dialogue and lyrics, whose name is Samuels... this vulgar orgy of tenth-rate endeavour. "I'll See You Again" Written...

"domestic panoramatist" and compared her to many English novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Archibald Marshall; he also described her as the "appointed...

The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known by its Latin title Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis or simply the Lemegeton, is an anonymously authored grimoire on...

Hardy Andrews' novel as given director Jacques Tourneur and scenarist Lesser Samuels a tough time, but they have tried. And so, to their credit, have Robert...

December 1937, directed by Sonnie Hale. The screenplay was written by Lesser Samuels and Sonnie Hale, based on a story by Selwyn Jepson.: 330  For the last...

Adrian Ross Owen Hall Greenwillow 1960 Broadway Frank Loesser Loesser Lesser Samuels and Loesser Grey Gardens 2006 Off-Broadway Scott Frankel Michael Korie...

American in Paris – Alan Jay Lerner‡ Ace in the Hole – Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman David and Bathsheba – Philip Dunne Go for Broke! –...

Directed by Victor Saville Written by original screenplay: Marion Dix Lesser Samuels scenario: Marion Dix additional dialogue: Austin Melford Produced by...

Saville Screenplay by Alan Green Lesser Samuels Based on The Long Wait by Mickey Spillane Produced by Lesser Samuels Starring Anthony Quinn Charles Coburn...

Hour Before the Dawn Directed by Frank Tuttle Written by Michael Hogan Lesser Samuels Based on novel by W. Somerset Maugham Produced by William Dozier Starring...

with Lesser Samuels 1951 Alan Jay Lerner An American in Paris Won Billy Wilder The Big Carnival Nominated Shared with Walter Newman and Lesser Samuels Robert...

starring Jackie Chan – (Hong Kong/United States) The Big Red One, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine Bizalom (Confidence)...

Agreement (1947) and The Snake Pit (1948), Zanuck purchased a story by Lesser Samuels about a racially charged encounter between a Black doctor and a white...

theatrical poster Directed by Frank Borzage Written by Lawrence Hazard Lesser Samuels Based on Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep 1936 novel by Richard Sale Produced...

The Earl of Chicago Directed by Richard Thorpe Written by Lesser Samuels Produced by Victor Saville Starring Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald...

bought the rights to a play about the lives of Gilbert and Sullivan by Lesser Samuels and Marion Dex. However he wanted permission from the estates of Gilbert...

H.M.S. U.S. theatrical poster Directed by Raoul Walsh Screenplay by Lesser Samuels Ralph Bettinson Produced by Geoffrey Barkas Starring Wallace Ford John...