Leo Rosten

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1908 age 0

   Born

2. 1946 age 38

   CreditThe Dark Cornerscreenwriter

3. 1948 age 40

   CreditSleep, My Lovescreenwriter

4. 1951 age 43

   CreditDouble Dynamitescreenwriter

5. 1997 age 88

   Died

• LHLeigh Harline1 title
• JBJean De Briac1 title
• GCGeorge Coulouris1 title
• BEBill Erwin1 title
• ECEllen Corby1 title
• LRLillian Randolph1 title
• RBRaymond Burr1 title
• FSFrank Sinatra1 title
• CCClaudette Colbert1 title
• JNJames Nolan1 title

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  Photo:Arthur RothsteinPublic domain

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  Leo Rosten, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

  Leo Rosten, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.

  Leo Rosten, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.

  Leo Rosten, CC BY-SA 4.0

• What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?

  Leo Rosten, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

  Leo Rosten, CC BY-SA 4.0