Samson Raphaelson is a Director, Scriptwriter and Additional Dialogue American born on 30 march 1894 at New York City (USA)
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson participated to
35 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
9 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Scriptwriter
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Directed by Nora EphronOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about computing,
Films based on playsActors Tom Hanks,
Meg Ryan,
Greg Kinnear,
Katie Sagona,
Parker Posey,
Dave ChappelleRoles Original Film Writer
Rating66%
Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) is involved with Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear), a leftist postmodernist newspaper writer for The New York Observer who's always in search of an opportunity to root for the underdog. While Frank is devoted to his typewriter, Kathleen prefers her laptop and logging into her AOL email account. There, using the screen name 'Shopgirl', she reads an email from "NY152", the screen name of Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) whom she first met in an "over-30s" chatroom. As her voice narrates her reading of the email, she reveals the boundaries of the online relationship; no specifics, including no names, career or class information, or family connections. Joe belongs to the Fox family which runs Fox Books — a chain of "mega" bookstores similar to Borders or Barnes & Noble. Kathleen, on the other hand, runs the independent bookstore The Shop Around The Corner that her mother ran before her. The two are shown passing each other on their respective ways to work, revealing that they frequent the same neighborhoods in upper west Manhattan. Joe arrives at work, overseeing the opening of a new Fox Books in New York with the help of his best friend, branch manager Kevin (Dave Chappelle). Meanwhile, Kathleen and her three store assistants, George (Steve Zahn), Aunt Birdie (Jean Stapleton), and Christina (Heather Burns) open up her small shop that morning., 2h21
Directed by Victor SavilleOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes La fin du monde,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Disaster films,
American disaster filmsActors Lana Turner,
Van Heflin,
Donna Reed,
Richard Hart,
Frank Morgan,
Edmund GwennRating67%
In the 1840s, on an island in the English Channel, two sisters, Marguerite (Donna Reed) and Marianne Patourel (Lana Turner), daughters of the wealthy Octavius Patourel (Edmund Gwenn), fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne (Richard Hart)., 1h42
Directed by George Sidney,
Robert AltonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
Romance,
WesternThemes Films about music and musicians,
Transport films,
Rail transport films,
Musical filmsActors Judy Garland,
John Hodiak,
Ray Bolger,
Angela Lansbury,
Preston Foster,
Virginia O'BrienRating69%
In the 1890s, a group of "Harvey Girls" - new waitresses for Fred Harvey's pioneering chain of Harvey House restaurants - travels on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) to the western town of Sandrock, Arizona. On the trip they meet Susan Bradley (Judy Garland), who travels to the same town to marry the man whose beautiful letters she received when she answered a "lonely-hearts" ad. Unfortunately, when she arrives, the man turns out to be an "old coot" who does not at all meet her expectations – and he also wants not to get married as much as she wants not to marry him, so they agree to call it off. When she learns that someone else, the owner of the local saloon, Ned Trent (John Hodiak), wrote the letters as a joke, she confronts him and tells him off, in the process endearing herself to him., 1h39
Directed by Alfred HitchcockOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceActors Cary Grant,
Joan Fontaine,
Cedric Hardwicke,
Nigel Bruce,
May Whitty,
Isabel JeansRating72%
Handsome, irresponsible playboy Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) meets dowdy Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) on a train, and charms her into running away and marrying him, despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After a lavish honeymoon and returning to an extravagant house, Lina discovers that Johnnie has no job, no income, habitually lives on borrowed money, and was intending to try to sponge off her father. She talks him into getting a job, and he goes to work for his cousin, estate agent Captain Melbeck (Leo G. Carroll)., 1h30
Directed by Alan Crosland,
Gordon HollingsheadOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about religion,
Théâtre,
Jazz films,
Musical films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Films based on playsActors Al Jolson,
May McAvoy,
Warner Oland,
Eugenie Besserer,
Myrna Loy,
Otto LedererRoles Theatre Play
Rating63%
Cantor Rabinowitz wants his son to carry on the generations-old family tradition and become a cantor at the synagogue in the Jewish ghetto of Manhattan's Lower East Side. But down at the beer garden, thirteen-year-old Jakie Rabinowitz is performing so-called jazz tunes. Moisha Yudelson spots the boy and tells Jakie's father, who drags him home. Jakie clings to his mother, Sara, as his father declares, "I'll teach him better than to debase the voice God gave him!" Jakie threatens: "If you whip me again, I'll run away — and never come back!" After the whipping, Jakie kisses his mother goodbye and, true to his word, runs away. At the Yom Kippur service, Rabinowitz mournfully tells a fellow celebrant, "My son was to stand at my side and sing tonight – but now I have no son." As the sacred Kol Nidre is sung, Jakie sneaks back home to retrieve a picture of his loving mother., 1h38
Directed by Richard Boleslawski,
Dorothy Arzner,
George FitzmauriceOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Noir,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Joan Crawford,
William Powell,
Robert Montgomery,
Frank Morgan,
Nigel Bruce,
Jessie RalphRating63%
When Lord Francis Kelton (Frank Morgan) finds a beautiful woman in his stateroom, he is flustered, but his playboy friend, Lord Arthur Dilling (Robert Montgomery), is fascinated by her. He finds out from the ship's purser that she is American widow Fay Cheyney on her way to stay in England. In London, she becomes the darling of English society, impressing everyone, including Arthur's wealthy aunt, the Duchess of Ebley (Jessie Ralph), who invites her to stay with her for the weekend. Arthur tries to impress Fay, but is rejected by her, even though she is becoming attracted to him. , 1h39
Directed by Ernst LubitschOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Monde imaginaire,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Operetta filmsActors Maurice Chevalier,
Jeanette MacDonald,
Edward Everett Horton,
Una Merkel,
George Barbier,
Minna GombellRating71%
Playboy, Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier), is ordered by King Achmet of Marshovia (George Barbier) to court and marry Madame Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), a rich widow who owns a large portion of the kingdom., 1h33
Directed by Ernst LubitschOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Monde imaginaire,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films based on playsActors Maurice Chevalier,
Claudette Colbert,
Miriam Hopkins,
Charles Ruggles,
George Barbier,
Hugh O'ConnellRating71%
In Vienna, Lieutenant Nikolaus "Niki" von Preyn (Maurice Chevalier) meets Franzi (Claudette Colbert), the leader of an all-female-orchestra. They soon fall in love with each other. While standing in formation before a parade honoring the visiting royal family of Flausenthurm, Niki takes the opportunity to wink at Franzi in the crowd. Unfortunately the gesture is intercepted by Anna, the Princess of Flausenthurm (Miriam Hopkins). The naive Princess assumes offense, leading the lieutenant to convince her that he slighted her because she is thought to be very beautiful. Besotted, the Princess demands she has to marry the lieutenant, or, she'll marry an American instead. The international incident is narrowly averted by having them get married., 1h20
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch,
George CukorOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films based on playsActors Maurice Chevalier,
Jeanette MacDonald,
Genevieve Tobin,
Charles Ruggles,
Roland Young,
Josephine DunnRoles Writer
Rating69%
Parisian doctor Andre Bertier (Maurice Chevalier) is faithful to his loving wife, Colette (Jeanette MacDonald), much to the surprise of his lovely female patients. But when Colette's best friend Mitzi Olivier (Genevieve Tobin) insists upon being treated by Dr. Bertier, it looks to many of those concerned that Mitzi may succeed where the other willing ladies failed.