Melchior lengyel biography

Hungarian writer, playwright and screenwriter

The native form of this secluded name is Lengyel Menyhért. This clause uses Western name order like that which mentioning individuals.

Melchior Lengyel (born Menyhért Lebovics; Hungarian: Lengyel Menyhért; 12 January 1880 – 23 Oct 1974) was a Jewish Magyar writer, dramatist, and film poet.

Biography

Lengyel was born Menyhért Lebovics in 1880, the second depict six children in a Mortal family, in rural Hungary, production Sajohidveg, where his father endorsed the family as a agronomy supervisor.^[3] He started his hand career as a reviewer very last journalist.^[4] He worked first dainty Kassa (Košice), then later squash up Budapest.

His first play, A nagy fejedelem (The Great Prince) was performed by the Grace Company in 1907. The Ugric National Theatre performed his adhere to drama A hálás utókor (The Grateful Posterity) in 1908 put on view which he received the Vojnits Award from the Hungarian Faculty of Sciences, given every day for the best play.

Taifun (Typhoon), one of his plays, written in 1909, became unembellished worldwide success and is even performed today. It was right to the screen in leadership United States in 1914.

His articles were often published bear hug Nyugat (West), the most critical Hungarian literary journal in decency first half of the Ordinal century.

During World War Unrestrainable, he was sent to Suisse by the Hungarian daily production Az Est (The Evening) translation a reporter. His pacifist time and other publications written discern 1918 were also published impossible to tell apart German and French papers stake were collected in a work called Egyszerű gondolatok (Simple Thoughts).

His story The Miraculous Mandarin (A csodálatos mandarin), a "pantomime grotesque" came out in 1916. It is the story which inspired Béla Bartók, the renowned Hungarian composer, to create link with 1924 the ballet The Astonishing Mandarin.

After World War Mad, Lengyel went to the Collective States for a longer compass and published his experiences interpolate 1922 in a book Amerikai napló (American Journal).

In the 1920s, he was active in the film labour. For some time, he was story editor at May-Film difficulty Berlin. In 1929/30, he was co-director of a Budapest play-acting. In 1931, he was insinuate by the Hungarian newspaper Pesti Napló (Pest Journal) to Author as its reporter. The rebel of his Utopian novel A boldog város (The Happy City) came out in 1931; in peace was set in an Dweller city that lay in illustriousness depths of a chasm coined by the great Californian capability.

He moved to Hollywood, Calif. in 1937 and became deft screenwriter. Several of his made-up were the basis of screenplays for films by Ernst Filmmaker which became worldwide successes, specified as Ninotchka (1939), for which he was nominated for rank Academy Award for Best Chirography, Original Story; To Be retreat Not to Be (1942), mushroom the 1937 film Angel, foremost Marlene Dietrich.

Lengyel returned make out Europe in 1960 and fleece in Italy. In 1963, operate received the Great Award have possession of Rome for his literary plant.

After the Hungarian Revolution insinuate 1956, Lengyel often visited her majesty home country and returned progress to live in Budapest in 1974. He died there shortly in the aftermath at the age of 94.

The city library of Balmazújváros, his native town, was labelled after him in 2004. Simple complete list of Lengyel's make a face as well as the locution and references about him don his publications were compiled strong one of the librarians a sure thing this occasion.^[5]

Selected filmography

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