# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-hoffenstein
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:22:20.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-hoffenstein"
name: "Samuel Hoffenstein"
slug: "samuel-hoffenstein"
description: "Samuel \"Sam\" Hoffenstein was a screenwriter and a musical composer. Born in Odessa, 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 wrote the scripts for over thirty movies. These movies included Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Miracle Man (1932), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Tales of Manhattan (1942), Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Laura (1944), and Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946)."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1890-1947)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bCcwLNOgI1otEm8IF4k93KuQMw0.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1890-10-09"
deathDate: "1947-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.82
  momentum:             4.717080909571655
  historical:           9.209576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388755/"
    handle:    "nm0388755"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "صموئيل هوفنشتاين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samuel Hoffenstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hoffenstein"
    title: "Samuel Hoffenstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ساموئل هافنشتاین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hoffenstein"
    title: "Samuel Hoffenstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hoffenstein"
    title: "Samuel Hoffenstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%8E%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Хоффенштейн, Самюэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8E%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Семюел Гоффенстайн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Hoffenstein"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q506161"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Samuel Hoffenstein"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump