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2 unusual facts about Samson Raphaelson


Samson Raphaelson

All directed by Lubitsch, the three were Trouble in Paradise, Heaven Can Wait, and Raphaelson’s favorite, The Shop Around the Corner, which had starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and which Kael wrote was “as close to perfection as a movie made by mortals is ever likely to be; it couldn’t be the airy wonder it was without the structure Raphaelson built into it.” (The story was remade in 1998 as You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.)

Raphaelson’s son, Joel (born 1928), became a senior ad executive and close associate of advertising legend David Ogilvy.


Main Street to Broadway

The black-and-white film, which has a running time of 97 minutes, was directed by Tay Garnett, screenplay by Samson Raphaelson, based on a story Robert E. Sherwood, and photographed by James Wong Howe.

Suprasternal notch

Screenwriter Samson Raphaelson invented the term ucipital mapilary to refer to the suprasternal notch for the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Suspicion.


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