Lesser Samuels

'''Lesser Samuels''' (26 July 1894 – 22 December 1980) enjoyed a 20-year career as a Hollywood screenwriter.

He is best known for back-to-back Oscar nominations for the racial drama ''No Way Out'' in 1950<ref name="Oscars1951">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1951 |title=The 23rd Academy Awards (1951) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=May 29, 2019|work=oscars.org}}</ref> and Billy Wilder's lacerating critique of tabloid journalism ''Ace in the Hole'' the following year.<ref name="Oscars1952">{{Cite web| url= http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952| title= The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners| accessdate= May 29, 2019| work= oscars.org}}</ref>

Samuels also wrote and served as associate producer on the notorious Biblical flop ''The Silver Chalice'' - a film which its star Paul Newman deemed one of the low points of his career - in 1954.

Samuels co-authored the book for the 1960 Frank Loesser musical ''Greenwillow''.

==Selected filmography== * ''It's Love Again'' (1936)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0760488|name=Lesser Samuels}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Samuels, Lesser}} Category:1894 births Category:1980 deaths Category:American male screenwriters Category:20th-century American male writers Category:20th-century American screenwriters