Stephen Longstreet Net Worth
Stephen Longstreet Net Worth is
$5 Million
Stephen Longstreet Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Stephen Longstreet (April 18, 1907–February 20, 2002) was an American author. Born Chauncey (later Henri) Weiner (sometimes Wiener) on April 18, 1907, he was known as Stephen Longstreet from 1939. He died on February 20, 2002.The 1948 Broadway musical High Button Shoes was based on Longstreet's semi-autobiographical 1946 novel, The Sisters Liked Them Handsome. | Date Of Birth | April 18, 1907 |
| Died | 2002-02-20 |
| Place Of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Profession | Writer |
| Star Sign | Aries |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was renowned as an artist who painted portraits of jazz artists, among them Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. |
| 2 | Writer, cartoonist, and painter. He published over 100 novels and five books on jazz, illustrated with his own drawings and watercolors. |
| 3 | Studied in Paris and at Rutgers and Harvard Universities, graduating from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (Parsons) in 1929. |
| 4 | Longstreet's semi-autobiographical novel, "The Sisters Liked Them Handsome", served as the basis for the 1948 hit Broadway musical "High Button Shoes". Directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, the play starred Nanette Fabray and Phil Silvers, and Longstreet was played by child actor Johnny Stewart. |
| 5 | Was introduced to jazz by future acting great Paul Robeson. |
| 6 | He traveled to Paris in the late 1920s where he met such artists as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He also met and drew writers James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | 1965 | TV Series novel - 1 episode | |
| The Secret Door | 1964 | story "Paper Door" | |
| Panic Button | 1964 | adaptation | |
| Rider on a Dead Horse | 1962 | screenplay | |
| Wild Harvest | 1962 | novel | |
| Outcasts of the City | 1958 | writer | |
| Casey Jones | 1957 | TV Series written by - 1 episode | |
| The Helen Morgan Story | 1957 | ||
| Untamed Youth | 1957 | story | |
| Playhouse 90 | 1957 | TV Series story - 1 episode | |
| Saturday Spectacular: High Button Shoes | 1956 | TV Movie book | |
| Lux Video Theatre | 1956 | TV Series novel - 1 episode | |
| The First Traveling Saleslady | 1956 | written by | |
| TV Reader's Digest | 1955 | TV Series teleplay - 1 episode | |
| The Last Half Hour: The Mayerling Story | 1951 | TV Movie | |
| The Bigelow Theatre | 1951 | TV Series story and teleplay - 1 episode | |
| Big Town | 1950 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Silver River | 1948 | from a novel by / screenplay | |
| Tonight on Broadway | 1948 | TV Series novel - 1 episode | |
| Stallion Road | 1947 | novel / screenplay | |
| The Jolson Story | 1946 | screenplay | |
| The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | 1945 | screenplay | |
| The Fighting Generation | 1944 | Short screenplay | |
| Strange Confession | 1944 | adaptation | |
| The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith | 1943 | Short screenplay | |
| He Can't Make It Stick | 1943 | Short story | |
| The Gay Sisters | 1942 | novel | |
| Barbary Coast | 1935 | uncredited |
Known for movies
Silver River (1948)
as Writer
The Jolson Story (1946)
as Writer
Stallion Road (1947)
as Writer
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
as Writer