Benjamin Glazer (May 7, 1887 - March 18, 1956) is an Academy Award-winning writer, producer, foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He is best known for his Oscar-winning work on 1927's Seventh Heaven and 1941's Arise, My Love. He was also one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... In the entertainment industry, a producer is generally in charge of, or helps to coordinate, the financial, legal, administrative, technological, and artistic aspects of a production. ... The foley artist on a film crew is the person who creates and records many of the sound effects. ... Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project. ... Film may refer to: photographic film a motion picture in academics, the study of motion pictures as an art form a thin skin or membrane, or any covering or coating, whether transparent or opaque a thin layer of liquid, either on a solid or liquid surface or free-standing Film... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Seventh Heaven is a 1927 silent film that was one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called Best Picture, Production). The film was written by H.H. Caldwell (titles), Benjamin Glazer, Katherine Hilliker (titles), and Austin Strong (play), and directed by... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization, founded on May 11, 1927 in California to advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures. ...

He was born in Belfast, Ireland. After moving to the United States, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and past the bar exam to become a lawyer in 1906. He later married actress Sharon Lynn. He died in 1956 of circulatory failure. Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is the largest city in and capital of both Northern Ireland and Ulster, and the second largest city in Ireland. ... The University of Pennsylvania Law School officially traces its origins to a series of lectures delivered in 1790 by U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson and former major architect of the Constitution, who had been named Professor of Law that year. ... A bar examination is an series of tests conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given American examination usually consists of the following: complicated essay questions concerning that jurisdictions law; the Multistate Bar Examination, a standardized, nationwide examination containing generalized... A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

Awards

• In 1929, he won the Best Writing, Adaptation Oscar for his work on Seventh Heaven, based on a play by Austin Strong.
• In 1941, he won the Best Writing, Original Story Oscar with Hans Székely for his work on Arise, My Love.

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External Links

• Benjamin Glazer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322227/) at the Internet Movie Database