Aaron Hoffman (October 30, 1880, in

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, whic ...

– May 27, 1924) was an American writer and lyricist, whose work was in wide use among

vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic compositio ...

comedians. He wrote material for numerous performers, including

Lew Dockstader Lew Dockstader (born George Alfred Clapp; August 7, 1856 – October 26, 1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer. Dockstader performed as a solo act and in his own popular ...

and Weber and Fields. Hoffman also had success as a writer of

Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (disambiguation) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree ...

plays and musical comedies.IBDb
/ref> In the 1910s, he wrote scripts and scenarios for silent films such as Beloved Rogues (1916) and several films starring actress

Olga Petrova Olga Petrova (born Muriel Harding; 10 May 1884 – 30 November 1977) was a British-American actress, screenwriter and playwright. Life and career Born Muriel Harding in England, she moved to the United States and became a star of vaudeville ...

. His play ''Two Blocks Away'' was adapted into the 1926 film

The Cohens and Kellys ''The Cohens and Kellys'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Harry A. Pollard and starring Charles Murray, George Sidney, Kate Price, and Jason Robards Sr. The film is the first of the ''Cohens and Kellys'' film serials. T ...

, the first of the six-film ''Cohens and Kellys'' franchise.

References

External links

Aaron Hoffman papers, 1900s-1926
held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division,

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, is located in Manhattan, New York City, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side, between the Metro ...

* American male screenwriters 1880 births 1944 deaths Writers from St. Louis Screenwriters from Missouri American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-stub