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Leonard Spigelgass

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Book Writer 1908–1985

Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American playwright, film producer and screenwriter. During his career, Spigelgass wrote the scripts for 11 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 was also a friend of Gore Vidal who used Spigelgass as the model for Vidal's semi fictionary "wise hack" character in the latter's series of essays about Hollywood.

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  • “The tough thing about discussing or dissecting Lillian,” said Leonard Spigelgass, “is discerning the motives of those deconstructing her. She doesn’t merit complete dismantling. Are her detractors objective in listing every faux pas and contradiction? Or are they reactionaries eager to exploit her flaws to promote their own intolerant ag…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • number of English, American, and Canadian plays including Bernard Slade's Same Time Next Year and Leonard Spigelgass's A Majority of One. See Gredy, Jean-Pierre. [Joseph E. Garreau] for adaptations of atheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
  • Driven by compulsion and financial necessity to keep working, the composer aligned with lesser lights Sammy Cahn and Leonard Spigelgass for Lilies, and the results were exceedingly drab. Styne provided his poorest score (unless his 1993 opus The Red Shoes deserves the crown); while the man had his share of failures, his work was always attheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • JACKSCHLISSEL LEONARD SPIGELGASS EDWINH_MORRIS Original Cast Album by ABC Recordstheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • LEONARD SPIGELGASS. 76. Brooklyn-bom writer for Broadway and Hollywood, died Feb.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt
  • LEONARD SPIGELGASS, 76. Brooklyn-bora playwright and screenwriter, died Feb. 14. 1986theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1985-86 Season, v. 42 (Willis).txt

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