Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samuel "Sam" Hoffenstein (October 8, 1890 - October 6, 1947) was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Russia, he emigrated to the United States and began a career in New York City as a newspaper writer and in the entertainment business. In 1931 he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for the rest of his life and where he wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man (1932), Phantom ...
Complete Filmography

Give My Regards to Broadway
1948
Writer
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.

Carnival in Costa Rica
1947
Writer
Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Cluny Brown
1946
Screenplay
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

Sentimental Journey
1946
Screenplay
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She dec...

Laura
1944
Screenplay
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

His Butler's Sister
1943
Screenplay
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

Flesh and Fantasy
1943
Screenplay
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The second involves a psychic who predicts...

Phantom of the Opera
1943
Screenplay
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful...

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
1942
Writer
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

Tales of Manhattan
1942
Writer
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea...

Lydia
1941
Screenplay
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young ...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Screenplay
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...

Bridal Suite
1939
Screenplay
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

The Great Waltz
1938
Screenplay
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

Conquest
1937
Writer
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence h...

Desire
1936
Screenplay
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France....

Love Before Breakfast
1936
Writer
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues K...

The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936
Screenplay
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.

Two for Tonight
1935
Writer
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

Paris in Spring
1935
Writer
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of...

Enchanted April
1935
Screenplay
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in he...

The Fountain
1934
Screenplay
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von ...

Change of Heart
1934
Additional Dialogue
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Wharf Angel
1934
Screenplay
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides ...

White Woman
1933
Writer
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel,...

The Song of Songs
1933
Screenplay
After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks...

Love Me Tonight
1932
Screenplay
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

Sinners in the Sun
1932
Writer
A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
Screenplay
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become l...

Once a Lady
1931
Writer
A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to lea...

An American Tragedy
1931
Screenplay
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.