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Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 β 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.
Filmography
all 40
Movies 38
Writer 35
self 2
TV Shows 2
Producer 2
Screenplay 1
Die kluge Witwe (1981)
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Le pont japonais (1978)
Cyrano (1974)
Gypsy (1962)
The Merv Griffin Show (1962)
A Majority of One (1961)
Pepe (1960)
A Majority of One (1960)
Silk Stockings (1957)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
Eloise (1956)
Playhouse 90 (1956)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Athena (1954)
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
Because You're Mine (1952)
The Law and the Lady (1951)
Night Into Morning (1951)
Mystery Street (1950)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
So Evil My Love (1948)
The Perfect Marriage (1947)
They Got Me Covered (1943)
The Youngest Profession (1943)
The Big Street (1942)
Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
All Through the Night (1942)
Tight Shoes (1941)
Million Dollar Baby (1941)
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Private Affairs (1940)
Unexpected Father (1939)
Service de Luxe (1938)
Letter of Introduction (1938)
Princess O'Hara (1935)
I'll Fix It (1934)
Stingaree (1934)
Hello, Sister! (1933)
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GenderMale
Birthday1908-11-26
Deathday1985-02-15 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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