Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American playwright, film producer and screenwriter. During his career, Spigelgass wrote...
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musical film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable...
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episode, and commissioned another writer (Leonard Spigelgass) to rewrite the script.[citation needed] Mr. Spigelgass does not seem to have succeeded in breaking...
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produced it. It was directed by Irving Reis from a screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass. The Big Street was a nickname for Broadway, where this movie's plot...
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of Unexplained Death), was the basis of the film. The story earned Leonard Spigelgass a nomination as Best Story for the 1951 Academy Awards. Brassy blonde...
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Look to the Lilies is a stage musical with a book by Leonard Spigelgass, lyrics by Sammy Cahn, and music by Jule Styne. Based on both the 1962 novel and...
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and Alec Guinness. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Leonard Spigelgass, which was a Broadway hit in the 1959-1960 season starring Gertrude...
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May Robson and Lee Patrick. The film was based on a short story by Leonard Spigelgass. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. When wealthy American...
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1947 American comedy film directed by Lewis Allen and written by Leonard Spigelgass. The film stars Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert, Charlie...
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A Majority of One is a play by Leonard Spigelgass. The 1958-59 Broadway production was directed by Dore Schary and ran for three previews and 556 performances...
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appeared on Broadway four times: Doctor Social (1948) with Dean Jagger Leonard Spigelgass' A Majority of One (1959) with Cedric Hardwicke and Barnard Hughes...
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Student Prince, The Desert Song, and The New Moon, among others. Leonard Spigelgass adapted the film from Elliott Arnold's 1949 biography of the same...
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Majority of One (1961): Warner Brothers: An adaptation of the successful Leonard Spigelgass play directed by Dore Schary. Stage actors Gertrude Berg and Cedric...
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later called "the lizard of Roz"), had sold the screen rights to the Leonard Spigelgass play A Majority of One to Warner Bros. on the condition that his wife...
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rating based on ten contemporary reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. Leonard Maltin gives it 3 out of 4 stars: "Interesting blend of spy, gangster,...
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supporting role in the two-hour, 36-minute Technicolor film version of Leonard Spigelgass' hit Broadway comedy-drama, A Majority of One, which she had been...
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World 2006-2007 - The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre. Hal Leonard. ISBN 9781557837288. Jasen, David A. (2004). Tin Pan Alley: An Encyclopedia...
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Shaw Major Barbara (1941) Gabriel Pascal A Majority of One (1959) Leonard Spigelgass A Majority of One (1961) Mervyn LeRoy The Marriage-Go-Round (1958)...
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ProQuest 105290980. Green, Stanley (1999). Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (2 ed.). Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 98. ISBN 0-634-00765-3. Vagg, Stephen (October 29, 2024)...
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book may have saved his life after falling into the hands of Major Leonard Spigelgass, an MGM executive and officer in the Signal Corps, who was struck...
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release poster Directed by Richard Thorpe Written by William Ludwig Leonard Spigelgass Produced by Joe Pasternak Starring Jane Powell Edmund Purdom Debbie...
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Dear Me, The Sky is Falling Paul Hirsch Music Box Theatre Written by Leonard Spigelgass, based on the book by Gertrude Berg and James Yaffe Oct 14, 1963 Oct...
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The Gunfighter – William Bowers and André de Toth Mystery Street – Leonard Spigelgass When Willie Comes Marching Home – Sy Gomberg The Titan: Story of Michelangelo –...
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rather commonplace plot in the script prepared by Ronald Miller and Leonard Spigelgass. Too much time is wasted with tempting yet trivial details of a complex...
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performance of the play. In 1969, James Aubrey of MGM commissioned Leonard Spigelgass to write a script. In August 1969, West was filming Myra Breckinridge...
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directed (but did not write) the comedy A Majority of One (1959–60) by Leonard Spigelgass, starring Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke. Schary earned a Tony...
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Sinatra as himself In August 1957 George Sidney Productions announced Leonard Spigelglass was working on the screenplay of a vehicle for Cantinflas called...
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Lizzani The Gunfighter William Bowers, André de Toth Mystery Street Leonard Spigelgass When Willie Comes Marching Home Sy Gomberg 1951 (24th) Seven Days...
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Theatrical poster Directed by Howard Hawks Screenplay by Charles Lederer Leonard Spigelgass Hagar Wilde Based on "Male War Bride Trial to Army" Baltimore Sun...
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Walking Down Broadway by Dawn Powell. According to Fox staff writer Leonard Spigelgass, who assisted von Stroheim with the screenplay, the director "was...
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