Irving Thalberg - Irving Thalberg Irving Thalberg (May 30, 1899 - September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and his unmatched ability for selecting the right scripts and making very profitable films out of them - Irving Thalberg - Thalberg began his film career at Universal Studios, as the personal secretary to Carl Laemmle. He left Universal in 1924 to become head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He produced several films there, including Mutiny on the Bounty. He was married to actress Norma Shearer and is interred with her in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award - The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Academy Awards ceremonies to "Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." The award is named for Irving Thalberg, legendary head of the Production Division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who developed the company's reputation for sophisticated films. Recipients of the Thalberg Award include: 1937 Darryl F. Zanuck 1938 Hal B. Wallis 1939 David O. Selznick 1941 Walt Disney 1942 Sidney Franklin 1943 Hal B. Wallis 1944 Darryl F. Zanuck 1946 Samuel Goldwyn 1948 Jerry Wald 1950 Darryl F. Zanuck 1951 Arthur Freed 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1953 George Stevens 1956 Buddy Adler 1958 Jack L. Warner 1961 Stanley Kramer 1963 Sam Spiegel 1965 William.
Ingmar Bergman - some of his films. By Bergman's own accounts, he has never had a problem with funding; he cites two reasons for it: 1, that he does not live in the United States, which he views as obsessed with box-office earnings; and 2, that his films tend to be low-budget affairs. (Cries and Whispers, for instance, was finished for about $450,000; while Scenes from a Marriage--a six-episode television feature--cost only $200,000.) Bergman left Sweden for Munich when accused of tax evasion; though he was later cleared of the charges, he remained in Munich and did not film again in Sweden until 1982. In 1982 he directed Fanny and Alexander; he reported that the film would be his last, and that afterwards he would focus on directing theater. Since then he has directed.
Institute Le Rosey - can be priceless. Some of Le Rosey's students, whose attendance is a matter of public record, are: Aga Khan IV; Sir Thomas Arnold, British statesman; Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia; Tae Ashida, designer; Joe Dassin, singer; Dodi Al-Fayed, movie producer, friend of Princess Diana; Richard Helms, former director of the CIA; Michael Korda, publisher; Sean Taro Ono Lennon, musician; Marie-Chantal Miller, Crown Princess of Greece; Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent; Prince Rainier of Monaco; Andrea di Robilant, author; Irving Thalberg Jr, motion picture family; Michael Kadoorie, Hong Kong billionaire; John Casablancas, founder of Elite Model Management; Albert Hammond Jr, musician, band member of "The Strokes" King Albert II of Belgium; Julian Casablancas, musician, band member of "The Strokes"; Prince Guillaume of Luxemburg, Crown Prince of Luxemburg;.
George Stevens - as A Place in the Sun, Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank, Giant and The Greatest Story Ever Told. Stevens died on his ranch in Lancaster, California. Academy Awards and nominations 1960 - Nominated - Best Director - The Diary of Anne Frank 1960 - Nominated - Best Picture - The Diary of Anne Frank 1957 - Won Best Director - Giant 1957 - Nominated Best Picture - Giant 1954 - Won Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1954 - Nominated Best Director - Shane 1954 - Nominated Best Picture - Shane 1952 - Won Best Director - A Place in the Sun 1952 - Nominated Best Picture - A Place in the Sun 1944 - Nominated Best Director - The More the Merrier 1944 - Nominated Best Picture - The More.
Grand Hotel - in grand style. where "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens." The film came from the original german play by Vicki Baum as adapted by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs. It was produced by Irving Thalberg and Paul Bern at MGM, and directed by Edmund Goulding. The top star, Greta Garbo delivered her famous "I vant to be alone," in this film. The cast included a series of top names: Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone and Jean Hersholt. Grand Hotel won the Best Picture Oscar, the only one for which it received a nomination. The 1945 Americanized remake Week-End at the Waldorf starring Ginger Rogers is very well forgotten..
F. Scott Fitzgerald - required loans from his literary agent, Harold Ober, and his editor at Scribner's, Maxwell Perkins. The 1920s proved the most influential decade of Fitzgerald's development. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, published in 1922, represents an impressive development over the comparatively immature This Side of Paradise. The Great Gatsby, which many consider his masterpiece, was published in 1925. Fitzgerald made several famous excursions to Europe, notably Paris and the French Riviera during the 20s, and became friends with many members of the American expatriate community in Paris, notably Ernest Hemingway. Fitzgerald began working on his fourth novel during the late 1920s but was sidetracked by financial difficulties that necessitated his writing commercial short stories, and the schizophrenia that struck Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald in 1930. Her emotional health remained fragile for.
Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery - great with the Los Angeles Dodgers W.C. Fields, comedic actor Errol Flynn, actor Clark Gable, actor King C. Gillette, businessman, founder of the razor company Huntley Gordon, actor Sid Grauman, Hollywood entertainer and theater owner Sydney Greenstreet, actor Jean Harlow, actress Jean Hersholt, actor, humanitarian Ted Knight, actor Alan Ladd, actor Louis L'Amour, author Carole Lombard, actress Jeanette MacDonald, actress Chico Marx, comedic actor William Mulholland, engineer Alfred Newman, composer Merle Oberon, actress Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist Tom Mix, cowboy actor Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first Bad Boy Mary Pickford, actress, businesswoman, Co-founder of United Artists Dick Powell, actor David O. Selznick, film director Athole Shearer, actress Norma Shearer, actress Red Skelton, comedian Tod Sloan, thoroughbred racing jockey Casey Stengel, manager of baseball's New York Yankees Jimmy Stewart, actor Robert Taylor,.
Dino de Laurentiis - his previous wife, actress Silvana Mangano. Today, he is married to the movie producer Martha Schumacher. In 2001 he received the The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences..
David O. Selznick - Jones, whom Selznick soon married (they stayed married until his death). His last feature, A Farewell to Arms, (1957), received modest reviews. On his death in 1965, David O. Selznick was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. Academy Awards and Nominations 1946 Nominated Best Picture Spellbound 1945 Nominated Best Picture Since You Went Away 1941 Won Best Picture Rebecca 1940 Won Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1940 Won Best Picture Gone with the Wind 1938 Nominated Best Picture A Star Is Born 1937 Nominated Best Picture A Tale of Two Cities.
Darryl F. Zanuck - National Guard in France. Returning to the US he worked in many part-time jobs while he tried to find work as a writer. He managed to find work producing movie plots, selling his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving Thalberg. He then worked for Mack Sennett and took that experience to Warner Brothers where he wrote stories for Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over forty scripts from 1924-29. He moved into management in 1929 and became head of production in 1931. In 1933 he left Warners to found Twentieth Century Films with Joseph Schenck, releasing their material through United Artists. In 1935 they bought out Fox studios to become Twentieth Century-Fox. Zanuck was vice-president of this new studio and took.
Academy Award - - 1928 to present (also called Interior or Set Decoration) Academy Award for Best Assistant Director - 1933 to 1937 Academy Award for Best Cinematography - 1928 to present Academy Award for Comedy Direction - 1928 only Academy Award for Costume Design - 1948 to present Academy Award for Best Dance Direction (1935-1937) Academy Award for Directing - 1928 to present Academy Award for Documentary Feature Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Academy Award for Engineering Effects - 1928 only Academy Award for Film Editing - 1935 to present Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - 1947 to present Academy Award for Makeup Academy Award for Original Music Score Academy Award for Best Song Academy Award for Animated Short Film - 1931 to present Academy Award for Live Action Short.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Niblo John M. Stahl Raoul Walsh Writers Joseph Farnham Benjamin F. Glazer Jeanie MacPherson Bess Meredyth Carey Wilson Frank Woods Technicians J, Arthur Ball Cedric Gibbons Roy J. Pomeroy Producers Fred Beetson Charles H. Christie Sid Grauman Milton E. Hoffman Jesse L. Lasky M. C. Levee Louis B. Mayer Joseph M. Schenck Irving Thalberg Harry Warner Jack Warner Mary Pickford Harry Rapf Lawyers Edwin Loeb George W. Cohen.
Academy Award for Best Picture - B. P. Schulberg The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox The Way of All Flesh - Paramount - Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year. 1927-28 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The Crowd - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg Best Production 1928-29 The Broadway Melody - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapt Alibi - Feature Productions, United Artists -Roland West The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapt In Old Arizona - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head The Patriot - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch 1929-30 All Quiet on the Western.
Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production - a redundant variation of Best Picture. 1927-1928 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The Crowd - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg.
Alfred Hitchcock - Bates (Anthony Perkins) who thought he was his own mother. Or, as Norman put it himself, "My mother is -- what's the phrase? -- she isn't really herself today." His last blonde heroine was 20 years young french actress Claude Jade as the secret agent's worried daughter Michčle in Topaz. Hitchcock saw that a reliance on actors and actresses was a holdover from the theater tradition. He was a pioneer in using camera movement, camera set ups and montage to explore the outer reaches of cinematic art. Hitchcock loved to eat. One unrealized film idea was to show 24 hours in the life of a city, with the frame being the food: how it was imported and prepared and eaten and then at the end of the day thrown away into.
The Love of the Last Tycoon - Love of the Last Tycoon is a novel based roughly on the life of film executive Irving Thalberg by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died in 1940 before finishing it. The notes for the novel were collected and edited by the literary critic Edmund Wilson, who was a close friend of Fitzgerald, and the unfinished novel was published in 1941 as The Last Tycoon. However, there is now critical agreement that Fitzgerald intended the title of the novel to be The Love of the Last Tycoon -- a title that is reflected in the 1994 edition of the book, edited by the well-respected Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli..
September 14 - 1914 - Clayton Moore, actor (†1999) 1921 - Ruth Brooks Flippen, television writer (†1981) 1923 - Bud Palmer, sports reporter 1933 - Zoe Caldwell, actress 1933 - Harve Presnell, actor 1934 - Kate Millett, feminist writer 1936 - Walter Koenig, actor 1938 - Nicol Williamson, actor 1947 - Sam Neill, actor 1959 - Mary Frances, actress 1971 - Kimberly Williams, actress 1973 - Nas, rap music singer Deaths 258 - Cyprian, early Christian writer 891 - Pope Stephen V 1321 - Dante Alighieri, author 1638 - John Harvard, clergyman, namesake of Harvard College 1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, author 1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister 1899 - Henry Bliss, first automobile fatality 1901 - United States President William McKinley 1927 - Isadora.
Steven Spielberg - from these amateur films have been included on the DVD edition of Saving Private Ryan), and he made his first short film for theatrical release, Amblin', in 1968 at the age of eighteen. (Spielberg's own production company, Amblin Entertainment, was named after this short film.) After directing episodes of various TV shows, including Night Gallery and one of the early Columbo TV movies, Spielberg directed his first well-known feature with a 1971 TV movie entitled Duel. This film has become a cult classic, having been released on video several times over the years. Spielberg's debut feature film, The Sugarland Express, won him critical praise and enough studio backing to be chosen as the director of a summer movie that would secure him a place in the history of motion pictures: Jaws..
Robert Wise - nominated for Best Director. In 1961, teamed with Jerome Robbins, he won the Oscar for West Side Story, and did it again in 1965 with The Sound of Music. Wise is a past president of both the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6338 Hollywood Blvd. Academy Awards and Nominations 1967 Won Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1967 Nominated Best Picture The Sand Pebbles 1966 Won Best Director The Sound of Music 1966 Won Best Picture The Sound of Music 1962 Won Best Director West Side Story with Jerome Robbins 1962 Won Best Picture West Side Story 1959 Nominated Best Director I Want to Live! 1942 Nominated Best Film Editing Citizen Kane.
