For the last 10 years of his life he taught playwrighting at Columbia
University.
Wife, Dorothy Deborah Wegman, was a Ziegfeld Girl for 7 years. She was
born November 27, 1904 and died November 7, 2005 at her home in
Manhattan, New York, USA.
Dorothy Wegman left the Zigfield Follies in 1927 to elope with
Raphaelson. Married for 66 years, she outlived him for another 22 years
before she died 20 days short of her 101st birthday.