Samson Raphaelson
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Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 – July 16, 1983 was an American screenwriter and playwright.
Born in New York City, he worked on nine films with Ernst Lubitsch, including Trouble in Paradise, The Shop Around the Corner and Heaven Can Wait. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Suspicion. He is the author of the play The Jazz Singer, which was made into the first ever talking picture. In 1977 the Screen Writers Guild granted him the Laurel Award for lifetime achievement. He taught playwrighting at Columbia University up until the last years of his life. His wife Dorshka (Dorothy Wegman) (b.1904) was an author 'Morning Song' and, until her death in 2005, was the second oldest surviving Ziegfeld Follies Dancer. His nephew is filmmaker Bob Rafelson, and his grandson is photographer Paul Raphaelson.
