14 Facts About Samson Raphaelson

Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer.

Samson Raphaelson then worked as a screenwriter with Ernst Lubitsch on sophisticated comedies such as Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner, and Heaven Can Wait and with Alfred Hitchcock on Suspicion.

Samson Raphaelson recorded the experience in a book, The Human Nature of Playwriting.

In later years, as a result of Samson Raphaelson's newly found passion for photography, he wrote a variety of articles for the leading photographic magazines.

Samson Raphaelson took the giddiest inspirations and then polished his dialogue until it had the gleam of appliqued butterfly wings on a Ziegfeld girl's toque, but the skeletal strength of his screenplays was what made it possible for the ideas and the words to take flight.

In 1977, Samson Raphaelson received the Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in screenwriting from the Writers Guild of America.

Samson Raphaelson died on July 16,1983, at the age of eighty-nine.

Samson Raphaelson became a legendary figure, Rayna Prohme, thanks to Vincent Sheean's bestselling book Personal History in the 1930s.

Samson Raphaelson played a role in the Chinese Revolution, and died in Moscow in 1927.

Samson Raphaelson was married for 56 years to Dorothy Wegman, known to friends and family as Dorshka.

Dorshka Samson Raphaelson published two novels: Glorified, an account of her life in the Follies, and Morning Song, a highly praised story about growing up in New York's Washington Heights.

Samson Raphaelson's daughter, Naomi, was a newspaper reporter and columnist in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Samson Raphaelson died in July 1983, at the age of 89.

Dorshka Samson Raphaelson died in November 2005, just 22 days short of her 101st birthday.