Lesser Samuels
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Lesser Samuels (26 July 1894 – 22 December 1980) enjoyed a 20-year career as a Hollywood screenwriter.
He is best known for back-to-back Oscar nominations for the racial drama No Way Out in 1950[1] and Billy Wilder's lacerating critique of tabloid journalism Ace in the Hole the following year.[2]
Samuels also wrote and served as associate producer on the notorious Biblical flop The Silver Chalice - a film which its star Paul Newman deemed one of the low points of his career - in 1954.
Samuels co-authored the book for the 1960 Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow.
Selected filmography
- It's Love Again (1936)
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
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