Samuel A. Taylor
Samuel Albert Taylor ( born March 13, 1912 in Chicago, † 26 May 2000 in Blue Hill; actually Samuel Albert Tanenbaum ) was an American author and screenwriter.
Life
Samuel Taylor attended school in San Francisco. After completing his studies at the University of California, he worked as a lecturer and examiner of stage works with an agency in New York. Finally, he began to write their own manuscripts for radio and television.
His first stage play, the comedy Happy Times ( The Happy Time ) experienced their first performance in 1950. She came with critics and audiences so well that in 1952 discovered a directed by Richard Fleischer Hollywood film version under the title My son love ( The happy time) followed Taylor and henceforth could fully concentrate on the writing stage works.
1953, with Sabrina ( Sabrina Fair. Or, A woman of the world. A romantic comedy ), his most famous stage play premiere. After the premiere with Joseph Cotten and Margaret Sullavan in the lead roles, it became an international success, reinforced by the film version of Billy Wilder titled Sabrina (1954). For the film, Taylor had also co-written by Wilder and Ernest Lehman screenplay, for which he won a Golden Globe in 1955 and received an Oscar nomination. Sabrina was later remade several times. Billy Wilder reached 1972 Avanti, Avanti one more time back on a piece of Taylors.
Samuel Taylor himself wrote after Sabrina regularly screenplays, including for the films Vertigo - From the land of the dead by Alfred Hitchcock and Love Brahms? Anatole Litvak. He adapted his own stage works for the screen and resulted in Monte Carlo Story 1956 even direct myself.
In addition to his stage works, he also wrote the book for the Richard Rodgers musical No strings (1962).
Samuel A. Taylor was a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ( AMPAS ), and for a time president of the Dramatists Play Service.
From 1940 until his death from heart failure on May 26, 2000 he was married to Suzanne Combes Taylor, with whom he had two children.
Works
Stage pieces
- The happy time, a comedy of love ( according to the stories by Robert Fontaine ), New York 1950 ( German Happy Times. Comedy in three acts )
- Sabrina Fair. Or, A woman of the world. A romantic comedy, 1953, in Print: New York, 1954 (. Ger Sabrina comedy in four acts )
- Cornelia Otis Skinner, together with: The pleasure of his company, a rueful comedy, New York, 1959 (. ger In Good Company Comedy )
- No strings. A new musical, New York, 1962 ( book, music and songs by Richard Rodgers )
- Beekman Place, New York 1965
- Avanti! Or, A very uncomplicated girl (1975 under the title A touch of spring. A comedy ), New York 1968