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    Title

  • Autographed portrait of Gabriel Beer-Hofmann

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph

  • Date

    1929 October

  • Summary

    Signed: Zur Erinnerung! - Gabriel - October XXIX -

    Verso: Gabriel Beer Hofmann geschrieben unter dem Namen Sebastian Marlowe geb. 1901 gest. 1972

  • Depicted

    Beer-Hofmann, Gabriel, 1901-1971

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Authors

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens Collection, AR 7258

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

G. S. Marlowe was the pseudonym of Gabriel Beer-Hofmann. He was born in 1901, the son of Viennese Jews Richard and Paula Beer-Hofmann, and he was active in London in the 1920s and ’30s as a theatre director, screenwriter, and author. He also may have been involved in screenwriting in Hollywood. In 1934, he married Sybil Ryall in London, and in 1939 he legally changed his name to Gabriel Sebastian Marlowe. His sole literary success was “I Am Your Brother” (1935), which attracted a cult following. Marlowe left England for Norway in 1940, and [returned to England after the war. Gabriel Beer-Hofmann Marlowe] died in 1971 at St. Albans, Herefordshire [goodreads.com].

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Citation

Autographed portrait of Gabriel Beer-Hofmann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5879.