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Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American playwright, film producer and screenwriter. [1] During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for 11 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 ...
Leonard Spigelgass. Writer: Mystery Street. Several of Leonard's plays reached Broadway, most notably "A Majority of One" in 1959. He also wrote "Climax" and "Playhouse 90" for television in addition to scripting eleven Academy Award shows.
- Writer, Director, Producer
- November 26, 1908
- Leonard Spigelgass
- February 15, 1985
Feb 16, 1985 · Leonard Spigelgass, whose plays and film scripts were hits on Broadway, in Hollywood and around the world, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 76 years old.
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 ...
Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter.[1] During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for 11 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.
Leonard Spigelgass was an American playwright, film producer and screenwriter. During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for 11 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.
Look to the Lilies is a stage musical with a book by Leonard Spigelgass, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, and music by Jule Styne.. Based on both the 1962 novel and film versions of Lilies of the Field, it tells the story of a group of German nuns, headed by a determined, dauntless Mother Superior, who manage to get an African American itinerant handyman/jack-of-all-trades named Homer Smith to build a ...
