Leonard Spigelgass

Leonard Spigelgass

Birth Date

11/26/1908 (Age 76)

Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Death Date

2/15/1985

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leonard Spigelgass (November 26, 1908 – February 15, 1985) was an American film producer and screenwriter. Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Spigelgass got his start collaborating on the script for Erich Von Stroheim's Hello, Sister! (1933). Additional screen credits include The Big Street (1942), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), Silk Stockings (1957), Pepe (1960), and Gypsy (1962). Spigelgass signed on as a staff writer for Universal Studios in 1938 and was a colonel in the US Army Signal Corps. Spigelgass also was a playwright and penned such dramas as Dear Me the Sky Is Falling, The Wrong Way Light Bulb, and A Remedy for Winter, the comedy A Majority of On...

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Writing

Gender

Male

Total Credits

2

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Frequent Collaborators

Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Mamoulian

1 film together

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

1 film together

Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse

1 film together

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