Category Archives: Producers
Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936
The career of legendary production executive Irving Thalberg – Hollywood’s "Boy Wonder" of the 1920s and early 1930s – will be explored in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new exhibition, "Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936," opening on Thursday, September 17, in the Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery in Beverly Hills. "Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920–1936" is guest [...]
Irving Thalberg: Q&A with Mark Vieira
"The Wedding of the Painted Doll" number from the musical The Broadway Melody (1929), the first talkie to win a best picture Academy Award; Louis B. Mayer, director Reginald Barker, Irving Thalberg on the set of The Dixie Handicap (1925); Norma Shearer and Chester Morris in the popular pre-Code melodrama The Divorcee (1930). HOLLYWOOD DREAMS MADE REAL: IRVING THALBERG AND THE RISE OF M-G-M [...]
Laurence Mark, Bill Condon to Produce Oscar Show
Producer Laurence Mark has been chosen to produce and writer/director Bill Condon to executive produce the telecast of the 81st Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis has announced. It will be Mark and Condon’s first involvement in the production of an Oscar show. Mark and Condon have worked together before. In 2006, Mark produced and Condon wrote and directed [...]
William Castle and ROSEMARY’S BABY
David Parkinson’s "The Horror Icon Who Spooked Himself: William Castle and Rosemary’s Baby" at Films in Focus: "After 15 years toiling in such B-movie series as The Whistler and The Crime Doctor, William Castle sold his soul to horror. In 1958 he hit upon the notion of insuring the lives of those brave enough to see his new chiller, Macabre, and recouped around $5 million [...]