--- name: "Benjamin Glazer" canonical: "https://film.one/person/benjamin-glazer" roles: ["Writer"] born: "7 May 1887" died: "18 March 1956" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 83 average_as: "writer" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-19T22:00:59.371959+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Benjamin Glazer Writer. Born 7 May 1887 in Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK]. Died 18 March 1956. ## Details - **Work:** Writer - **Born:** 7 May 1887, Belfast, Ireland, UK [now Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK] - **Died:** 18 March 1956 - **Active:** 1927–1932 - **Also known as:** Benjamin F. Glazer - **Frequently works with:** [Frank Borzage](https://film.one/person/frank-borzage.md) - **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won · 1 nominated) - **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as writer, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 86 (1), 1930s 80 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Glazer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817511, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322227/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89045 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*7th Heaven*](https://film.one/film/7th-heaven.md) (86) - **Apple TV:** [*A Farewell to Arms*](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Benjamin F. Glazer was a screenwriter, producer and director of American films. Born in Belfast, Ireland, into a Hungarian Jewish family, he moved to the United States and studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, passing the bar in 1906 before entering journalism and then the film industry. Glazer worked extensively from the silent era into the 1950s. He wrote the scenario for *7th Heaven* (1927), which won him an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) at the first Oscars ceremony. Other credits include *Flesh and the Devil* (1926), *The Merry Widow* (1925), *Mata Hari* (1931), *A Farewell to Arms* (1932) and *Arise, My Love* (1940), for which he received a second Oscar. He made the first English translation of Ferenc Molnár's play *Liliom* (1921), later the basis for the musical *Carousel* (1956). Glazer was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was married to actress Sharon Lynn from 1932 and died in Hollywood, California, in 1956. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), Fi1m 80, Associate Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md) - *7th Heaven* (1927), Fi1m 86, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/7th-heaven.md) ## Complete filmography (62) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Carousel* (1967), Writer - *Carousel* (1956), Adaptation - *Song of My Heart* (1948), Writer, Director - *Tortilla Flat* (1942), Screenplay - *Paris Calling* (1941), Producer, Screenplay - *Arise, My Love* (1940), Story - *They Made Me a Criminal* (1939), Associate Producer - *Exclusive* (1937), Producer - *Mountain Music* (1937), Producer - *Internes Can't Take Money* (1937), Producer - *Anything Goes* (1936), Producer - *The Big Broadcast of 1936* (1935), Producer - *Paris in Spring* (1935), Producer - *Love in Bloom* (1935), Producer - *Enter Madame* (1935), Producer - *She Loves Me Not* (1934), Producer, Writer - *We're Not Dressing* (1934), Story, Producer - *The Way to Love* (1933), Screenplay, Producer - *The Song of Songs* (1933), Writer - *The Story of Temple Drake* (1933), Producer - *A Bedtime Story* (1933), Writer - *No Man of Her Own* (1932), Story - *A Farewell to Arms* (1932), Screenplay, Associate Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/a-farewell-to-arms.md) - *If I Had a Million* (1932), Associate Producer - *The Big Broadcast* (1932), Associate Producer - *Mister Albert* (1932), Writer - *This Is the Night* (1932), Writer, Associate Producer - *Two Kinds of Women* (1932), Writer - *Mata Hari* (1931), Writer - *The Pagan Lady* (1931), Screenplay - *Don Juan diplomático* (1931), Screenplay - *The Devil to Pay!* (1930), Adaptation - *The Boudoir Diplomat* (1930), Screenplay, Dialogue - *Tol'able David* (1930), Writer - *Liliom* (1930), Translator - *Queen Kelly* (1929), Production Manager - *The Dance of Life* (1929), Screenplay - *Strange Cargo* (1929), Producer, Director, Screenplay, Story - *The Barker* (1928), Screenplay - *Beggars of Life* (1928), Adaptation - *Happiness Ahead* (1928), Scenario Writer - *The Street of Sin* (1928), Story - *The Trail of '98* (1928), as Continuity · Adaptation - *The Love Mart* (1927), Adaptation - *A Gentleman of Paris* (1927), Writer - *7th Heaven* (1927), Screenplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/7th-heaven.md) - *Service for Ladies* (1927), Story - *Paid to Love* (1927), Writer - *The Lady in Ermine* (1927), Adaptation - *Flesh and the Devil* (1926), Screenplay - *Everybody's Acting* (1926), Scenario Writer - *The Merry Widow* (1926), Screenplay - *You Never Know Women* (1926), Writer - *Diplomacy* (1926), Writer - *Wild Oats Lane* (1926), Writer - *The Skyrocket* (1926), Screenplay, Adaptation - *Memory Lane* (1926), Original Story - *The Palace of Pleasure* (1926), Screenplay - *Fine Clothes* (1925), Writer - *The Great Divide* (1925), Adaptation - *Sinners in Silk* (1924), Story - *A Trip to Paradise* (1921), Adaptation ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 2 won, 1 nominated - 1941: Best Story (won), for *Arise, My Love* - 1929: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Seventh Heaven* - 1928: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Seventh Heaven* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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