Samson Raphaelson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American screenwriter
Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1894
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 16-Jul-1983
Profession: screenwriter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Samson Raphaelson
- Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 – July 16, 1983) was a leading American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer. While working as an advertising executive in New York, he wrote a short story based on the early life of Al Jolson, called The Day of Atonement, which he then converted into a play, The Jazz Singer.
- This would become the first talking picture, with Jolson as its star.
- He then worked as a screenwriter with Ernst Lubitsch on sophisticated comedies like Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, and Heaven Can Wait, and with Alfred Hitchcock on Suspicion.
- His short stories appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and other leading magazines, and he taught creative writing at the University of Illinois.
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