塞缪尔·纳撒尼尔·贝尔曼（Samuel Nathaniel Behrman，1893 年 6 月 9 日 - 1973 年 9 月 9 日）是美国剧作家、编剧、传记作家和《纽约客》的长期作家。他的儿子是作曲家大卫·贝尔曼。

1893 年，贝尔曼的家人从现在的立陶宛移民到美国，塞缪尔·纳撒尼尔·贝尔曼 （Samuel Nathaniel Behrman） 出生在马萨诸塞州伍斯特的一个公寓里，他是三个儿子中最小的一个。

从 1920 年代后期到 1940 年代，SN Behrman 被认为是百老汇“高级喜剧”的主要作家之一，通常由著名的戏剧协会制作，并为 Ina Claire、Katharine Cornell、Jane Coowl 等明星以及 Alfred Lunt 和 Lynn Fontanne 的表演团队写作，他们成为他的好朋友。在好莱坞，贝尔曼作为编剧享受了利润丰厚的第二职业。他为葛丽泰·嘉宝（Greta Garbo）撰写了剧本，包括《克里斯蒂娜女王》、《征服》和她的最后一部电影《双面女人》。他与索尼娅·莱维恩（Sonya Levien）共同编写了1930年费伦茨·莫尔纳（Ferenc Molnár）的电影版《莉莉奥姆》（Liliom）的剧本，该片由查尔斯·法瑞尔（Charles Farrell）和罗斯·霍巴特（Rose Hobart）主演。他在好莱坞的经历在戏剧《让我听到旋律》（Let Me Hear the Melody，1951）中找到了戏剧性的形式，这一失败在百老汇前的试演中结束了。他还合作创作了《安娜·卡列尼娜》（1935）、《双城记》（1935）和《滑铁卢桥》（1940）的剧本。

S. N. Behrman 于 1973 年去世，享年 80 岁。他的妻子艾尔莎·海菲茨·贝尔曼（Elza Heifetz Behrman）幸存下来，她是小提琴家雅沙·海菲茨（Jascha Heifetz）的妹妹，他在四十多岁时结婚，还有一个儿子

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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (June 9, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for The New Yorker. His son is the composer David Behrman.

Behrman's family immigrated from what is now Lithuania to the United States, where Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born, the youngest of three sons, in a tenement in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893.

From the late 1920s through the 1940s, S. N. Behrman was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy," was often produced by the famous Theatre Guild, and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Cowl, and the acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who became his good friends. In Hollywood, Behrman enjoyed a lucrative second career as a screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina, Conquest, and her final film, Two-Faced Woman. With Sonya Levien, he co-wrote the screen play for the 1930 film version of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. His experiences in Hollywood found dramatic form in the play Let Me Hear the Melody (1951), a failure that closed in pre-Broadway tryouts. He also collaborated on the screenplays for Anna Karenina (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), and Waterloo Bridge (1940).

S. N. Behrman died in 1973 at the age of eighty. He was survived by his wife, Elza Heifetz Behrman, the sister of violinist Jascha Heifetz, whom he had married in his forties, and a son