Benjamin Glazer

Benjamin F. Glazer (May 7, 1887 – March 18, 1956) was a screenwriter, producer, Foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He made the first translation of author / playwright Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom (1909) into English from its original Hungarian (Magyar) in 1921. His translation was used in the first American live stage play performance that year and later in the subsequent 1930 film version, and in every production in English of the play for the 115 years since its 1909 writing until recently. It also served as the basis for the libretto for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, as well as for Phoebe and Henry Ephron's screenplay for the 1956 film version. Glazer was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Ulster, United Kingdom, into a Hungarian Jewish family. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean and moving to the United States, in the early 20th century, he moved south to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and passed the Pennsylvania bar exam to practice and become a lawyer in 1906. Glazer was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion P... ()