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Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (8 October 1890 - 6 October 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Odessa (now Ukraine), he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business.
Samuel Hoffenstein. Lithuanian-born author and screenwriter, in the U.S. from 1894. Hoffenstein graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and subsequently went to work as a reporter for a local newspaper. By 1913, he had moved on to a position as a drama critic for the New York Evening Sun.
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- Kera, Russia
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Samuel Hoffenstein is most famous for the 1932 musical Gay Divorce, which he adapted with Kenneth Webb from the show’s original book, written by Dwight Taylor. On October 8, 1890, Hoffenstein was born in Kera, Russia, and later immigrated to the United States.
Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (8 October 1890 - 6 October 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Odessa (now Ukraine ), he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business.
Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein, American humorist, journalist, poet, and screenwriter, was born October 8, l890, in Lithuania. When Hoffenstein was four years old, he and his parents Josiah Mayer and Taube Gita Kahn Hoffenstein immigrated to Wilkes-Barre, PA.
The poet Samuel Hoffenstein took to screenwriting during the last 14 years of his life. His musical ability and sublime gift for working ethereal elements into a story line meshed well with the lavish film productions on which he worked during the 1930s and 1940s.
Samuel Hoffenstein has 15 books on Goodreads with 225 ratings. Samuel Hoffenstein’s most popular book is Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing.
