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Leonard Spigelgass
Brooklyn, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter. Born to a Jewish family in Brook…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Silk Stockings (1957), Pepe (1960), and Gypsy (1962). Spigelgass signed on as a staff writer for Universal Studios in 1938 and was a colonel in the US Army Signal Corps. Spigelgass also was a playwright and penned such dramas as Dear Me the Sky Is Falling, The Wrong Way Light Bulb, and A Remedy for Winter, the comedy A Majority of One, and the book for the musical Look to the Lilies. He also wrote plays for such television series as Playhouse 90 and the novels Million Dollar Baby and Fed to the Teeth. During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for eleven 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. Spigelgass' sister, Beulah Roth, was a political speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson, and was married to photographer Sanford H. Roth, a close friend of James Dean. Spigelgass died in Los Angeles, California.
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1979
The Man You Loved to Hate
Movie Self
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1978
Le pont japonais
Movie Writer
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1974
Cyrano
Movie Writer
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1962
Gypsy
Movie Writer
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1961
A Majority of One
Movie Screenplay
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1960
Pepe
Movie Story
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1957
Silk Stockings
Movie Screenplay
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1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Movie Writer
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1957
One Coat of White
Movie Writer
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1956
Eloise
Movie Writer
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1956
Playhouse 90
TV show Writer
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1955
MGM Parade
TV show Director
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1954
Deep in My Heart
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Athena
Movie Writer
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1953
Scandal at Scourie
Movie Writer
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1952
Because You're Mine
Movie Screenplay
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1951
The Law and the Lady
Movie Writer
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1951
Night Into Morning
Movie Screenplay
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1950
Mystery Street
Movie Story
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1949
I Was a Male War Bride
Movie Screenplay
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1948
So Evil My Love
Movie Screenplay
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1947
The Perfect Marriage
Movie Writer
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1943
They Got Me Covered
Movie Original Story
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1943
The Youngest Profession
Movie Screenplay
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1942
The Big Street
Movie Screenplay
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1942
Butch Minds the Baby
Movie Screenplay
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1942
All Through the Night
Movie Story
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1941
Tight Shoes
Movie Screenplay
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1941
Million Dollar Baby
Movie Story
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1940
One Night in the Tropics
Movie Associate Producer
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1940
Private Affairs
Movie Screenplay
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1939
Unexpected Father
Movie Story
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1938
Service de Luxe
Movie Writer
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1938
Letter of Introduction
Movie Writer
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1935
Princess O'Hara
Movie Associate Producer
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1934
I'll Fix It
Movie Screenplay
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1934
Stingaree
Movie Adaptation
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1933
Hello, Sister!
Movie Scenario Writer
