Elmer Rice was born on September 28, 1892 in New York City, New York, USA as Elmer Leopold Reizenstein. He was a writer, known for Holiday Inn (1942), Street Scene (1931) and Counsellor at Law (1933). He was married to Betty Field and Hazel Levy. He died on May 8, 1967 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.
Much filmed Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. A former legal student, he hit the big time with his first play "On Trial", which made him $100,000. He is best known, however, for the satirical "The Adding Machine" (which he wrote in seventeen days) and the urban chronicle "Street Scene".
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His 1929 play, from which was derived the namesake film Street Scene (1931), won a Pulitzer Prize (he also wrote the screenplay for the film)).
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