Word: raphaelson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perlberg-Seafon; Paramount) is a new version of a slight Samson Raphaelson comedy (Accent on Youth) which first appeared on Broadway in 1934, and soon thereafter on the screen. Hollywood has packed a prize cast into the remodeled hull, but the craft is still so frail that only the acting mastery of Lee J. Cobb and Lilli Palmer saves it from capsizing...
Hilda Crane (20th Century-Fox) was originally a series of short stories about an aging and raddled Manhattan career girl who tries to settle down to the straight and narrow in her old home town. In 1950 Author Samson Raphaelson adapted his theme to a Broadway play, starring Jessica Tandy as the lady who finds an overdose of sleeping pills easier to take than smalltown living...
...story and screenplay were furnished by two veteran playwrights who have dabbled in the movies before-Robert Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives) and Samson Raphaelson (The Jazz Singer, 1952 version)-but they seem to be writing down to the movies. While they occasionally use words of three syllables, the ideas are generally kindergarten. The story tells of an ambitious young playwright (Tom Morton) who tries to make the big jump from the Lower East Side to Broadway. But while romancing the theater, he neglects his small-town girl (Mary Murphy), who begins to pay attention to a hardware...
...Samson Raphaelson's Hilda Crane brings the star of Streetcar back to Broadway for a fine portrayal of a girl who loved a college professor but married a lawnmower manufacturer. Raphaelson and Miss Tandy, the critics claim, are excellent...
...board is the largest number of letters we have received on any issue in more than two years. They are about the dealings of the Radcliffe administration with the CRIMSON'S former Radcliffe Bureau chief, Deborah Labenow. One of these letters is from a former CRIMSON editorial chairman, Joel Raphaelson '49; it cuts so cleanly into the issues of the Labenow case that we are printing it as today's editorial...