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- Birth nameSampson Miles Raphaelson
- Samson Raphaelson was born on March 30, 1896 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Suspicion (1941), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and That Lady in Ermine (1948). He was married to Dorothy Deborah Wegman and Rayna DeCosta Simons. He died on July 16, 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesDorothy Deborah Wegman(December 24, 1927 - July 16, 1983) (his death, 2 children)Rayna DeCosta Simons(January 1, 1918 - September 22, 1922) (divorced)
- Famous for working with Ernst Lubitsch and Alfred Hitchcock. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) is his most famous work with Lubitsch. He worked with Hitchcock in Suspicion (1941). Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, and Alma Reville wrote the screenplay for Suspicion (1941).
- Considered Suspicion (1941), for Alfred Hitchcock, "in many ways my best screenplay.".
- Uncle of Bob Rafelson.
- For the last 10 years of his life he taught playwrighting at Columbia University.
- Wife, Dorothy Deborah Wegman, was a Ziegfeld Girl for 7 years. She was born November 27, 1904 and died November 7, 2005 at her home in Manhattan, New York, USA.
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