Leonard Spigelgass

Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Also Known As

Leonard Spiegelgass

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

November 26, 1908

Died

February 15, 1985

Filmography

Gypsy (1962)

Screenwriter

A Majority of One (1962)

Screenwriter

Pepe (1961)

Screenplay story

Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)

Writer

Silk Stockings (1957)

Screenwriter

Athena (1954)

Writer

Photos & Videos

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Gypsy (1962) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Never Get Away From Me

Gypsy (1962) -- (Movie Clip) If Momma Was Married

Family & Companions

Brandon Toomey

Companion

Actor.

Bibliography

"I Wasn't Born Yesterday"

Leonard Spigelgass

"Million Dollar Baby"

Leonard Spigelgass

"The Scuttle Under The Bonnet"

Leonard Spigelgass

"Fed to the Teeth"

Leonard Spigelgass

Notes

Served three terms as vice president and five terms as treasurer of the Writers Guild of America.

Founder and chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council (1957-58)

Biography

Filmography

Life Events

1930

Began career in film industry as reader and story editor

1933

Wrote the last film (and only sound picture) to be directed by Erich von Stroheim, "Hello, Sister"

1938

Signed as writer at Universal

Videos

Gypsy (1962) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Never Get Away From Me Chasing Vaudeville bookings cross-country in the 1930's, crazy stage-mother Rose (Rosalind Russell) at a New York Chinese joint with Herbie (Karl Malden), her persistent suitor and manager of her two daughters, finds another Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim original from the Broadway smash, in Gypsy, 1962.

Gypsy (1962) -- (Movie Clip) If Momma Was Married Manager and virtual-spouse Herbie (Karl Malden) of their tiger stage-mother Rose (Rosalind Russell) reassures sisters (Natalie Wood as less-gifted Louise, Ann Jillian as star

Gypsy (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Let Me Entertain You Early days, Karl Malden as Herbie (stage name Uncle Jocko) intervenes somewhat to do the right thing for young June (Suzanne Cupito) and Louise (Diane Pace), a Styne/Sondheim tune getting murdered, and Mama Rose (Rosalind Russell) storms in, 1920’s vaudeville, in Gypsy, 1962.

All Through The Night (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Miracle On 48th Street Future TV stars William Demarest, Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason in the opening scene, when their ringleader Gloves (Humphrey Bogart) appears, sidekick Barney (Frank McHugh) joining, ex-actor Vincent Sherman directing, in Warner Bros' gangster-comedy-propaganda hybrid All Through The Night, 1942.

Pepe (1960) -- (Movie Clip) How Humiliatin'! Cantinflas (title character), seeking his beloved horse, has reached Las Vegas, where director George Sidney lays down another barrage of cameos, this time including Frank Sinatra, Cesar Romero, Jimmy Durante and just the start of Dean Martin's bit (Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. done earlier), in Pepe, 1960.

Stingaree (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Wasn't Supposed To Meet You Richard Dix (the bandit title character, in colonial Australia) cannily assumes the identity of a visiting English composer, pretty, talented but indentured Hilda (Irene Dunne) having presumed incorrectly, in RKO's Stingaree, 1934, restored by TCM.

Scandal At Scourie (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Best Ones Were Taken First On an Ontario stopover, traveling west with guardian nuns seeking homes for their charges after a fire, orphan Patsy (Donna Corcoran), hoping to save her goldfish from her bully friends, meets local Mrs. McChesney (Greer Garson, her first scene), in MGM's Scandal At Scourie, 1953.

Scandal At Scourie (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Dictated By Rome Mrs. McChesney (Greer Garson) has not quite convinced her prominent Ontario Protestant storekeeper and mayor husband Patrick (Walter Pidgeon) that they should adopt just-arrived Catholic Quebecois orphan Patsy (Donna Corcoran) permanently, early in MGM's Scandal At Scourie, 1953.

Law And The Lady (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Chemin de Fer On their first adventure in Monte Carlo, ex-servant Jane (Greer Garson) poses as "Lady Loverly," easily causing her newfound escort (Holmes Herbert) to lose at cards, her new partner Nigel (Michael Wilding) collecting, in The Law And The Lady, 1951.

Law And The Lady, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) One Stone At A Time We know that butler “Hoskins” (Michael Wilding) is really Nigel, con-man partner of Greer Garson, who’s just arrived at his new San Francisco situation posing as “Lady Loverly,” discussing their plot, drawing the attention of neighbor Dinas (Fernando Lamas), in The Law And The Lady, 1951.

Scandal At Scourie (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Because I'm A Protestant? Irish-born Ontarian Mrs. McChesney (Greer Garson) has just failed in her scheme to cause Quebec orphan Patsy (Donna Corcoran) to miss her train west with the nuns, so she makes a spontaneous offer to Sister Josephine (Agnes Moorehead), Arthur Shields the local priest, in MGM's Scandal At Scourie, 1953.

Law And The Lady, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Stop Being Witty Domestic "girl" Jane (Greer Garson) is just being accused of stealing by Lord and Lady Minden (Michael Wilding, Phyllis Stanley), when his twin Nigel (also Wilding) appears, the police inspector (Rhys Williams) baffled, early in The Law And The Lady, 1951.

Family

Beulah Roth

Sister

Active in politics; speechwriter for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson.

Companions

Brandon Toomey

Companion

Actor.

Bibliography

"I Wasn't Born Yesterday"

Leonard Spigelgass

"Million Dollar Baby"

Leonard Spigelgass

"The Scuttle Under The Bonnet"

Leonard Spigelgass

"Fed to the Teeth"

Leonard Spigelgass

Notes

Served three terms as vice president and five terms as treasurer of the Writers Guild of America.

Founder and chairman of the Motion Picture Industry Council (1957-58)

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Filmography

Photos & Videos

Family & Companions

Bibliography

Notes

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Producer (Feature Film)

Writer (Special)

Special Thanks (Special)

Misc. Crew (TV Mini-Series)

Life Events

1930

1933

1938

Videos

Movie Clip

Family

Companions

Bibliography

Notes

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