Were both Hal Hartley and Mervyn LeRoy producers?
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Mervyn LeRoy Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 – September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer and occasional actor.
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Hal Hartley Hal Hartley (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. He is best known for his films "Trust", "Amateur" and "Henry Fool", which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue.
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Big City Blues (1932 film) Big City Blues is a 1932 Warner Bros. pre-Code drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The film is based on the play "New York Town" by Ward Morehouse and stars Joan Blondell and Eric Linden, with an uncredited early appearance by Humphrey Bogart.
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Hal E. Chester Hal E. Chester (born "Harold Rapatsky"; March 6, 1921 in Brooklyn, New York – March 25, 2012 in London), was an American film producer, writer, director, and former child actor. He appeared in the opening performance of "Dead End" on Broadway in 1937, playing the part of "Dippy" – one of the gang of kids later to gain fame as The Dead End Kids – going on the road with this hit play for 22 weeks, before accepting an offer to appear in the sequel to the film version "Crime School" for Warner Bros in 1938. As a teen actor, his most regular work was with "The Little Tough Guys" series for Universal, appearing also in "Juvenile Court" for Columbia Pictures, and "The Eastside Kids" for Monogram. His last appearance in this series was in "Sea Raiders" in 1941. Credited as "Hally Chester" when he first appeared on stage (he had taken the name of his step-mother 'Chesler') quickly becoming known as 'Chester'.
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Valley of the Moon (1914 film) The Valley of the Moon is a 1914 silent film directed by Hobart Bosworth and starring Jack Conway and Myrtle Stedman. Produced by Bosworth/London, it was an adaptation of the 1913 novel "The Valley of the Moon" by Jack London and based upon a scenario by Hettie Gray Baker.
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Mervyn Pinfield Mervyn Pinfield (28 February 1912 - 20 May 1966) was a British television producer and director working for the BBC during the 1950s and 1960s. He was the associate producer on the BBC television series "Doctor Who" from the first episode of "An Unearthly Child" to "The Romans", during Verity Lambert's tenure as producer.
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Alfie Darling Alfie Darling is a 1975 British comedy drama film directed by Ken Hughes. It is the sequel to the 1966 film "Alfie", with Alan Price taking over Michael Caine's role of Alfie. Price also penned the movie title song, performed and released as a single by Cilla Black who was also the first to record the title song based on the original movie, penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
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Blue Hawaii (Elvis Presley album) Blue Hawaii is the fourteenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2426, on October 20, 1961. It is the soundtrack to the 1961 film of the same name starring Presley. Recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21, 22, and 23, 1961. In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on "Billboard"' s Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on December 21, 1961, Platinum and 2x Platinum on March 27, 1992 and 3x Platinum on July 30, 2002 by the Recording Industry Association of America. On the US Top Pop Albums chart "Blue Hawaii" is second only to the soundtrack of "West Side Story" as the most successful album of the 1960s.
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Howard Morton Howard Leroy Morton (May 15, 1925 – May 11, 1997) was an American actor.
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Alan Hartley General Sir Alan Fleming Hartley , psc (24 October 1882 – 7 December 1954) was a British Indian Army officer during World War II.
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Julius Hagen Julius Hagen (1884–1940) was a German-born British film producer who produced more than a hundred films in Britain.
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Leonard Lewis Leonard Jack Lewis (29 November 1927 – 2 December 2005) was a British producer and director. He was most active in television. He was the Executive/Series Producer for BBC's "EastEnders" during the early 1990s, though he had success with many other television programmes for both the BBC and ITV. It has been said that Lewis believed in "the principles of public service broadcasting" and he has been described as a "gifted television producer with hidden directorial talents". After over 40 years working in the television industry, Lewis retired in 1995. He died in December 2005, aged 78.
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The Producers (1967 film) The Producers is a 1967 American satirical comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, and Kenneth Mars. The film was Brooks's directorial debut, and he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
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William Cagney William Jerome Cagney (March 26, 1905 – January 3, 1988) was an American film producer and actor, noted for roles in the Monogram Pictures movies "Lost in the Stratosphere" and "Flirting with Danger", both filmed in 1934.
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Benny Thau Benny Thau (born Benjamin Thau, 15 December 1898 – 5 July 1983) was an American businessman who became vice-president of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a subsidiary of the Loew's theater chain. From 1928 he was in charge of casting, in the business of discovering and developing talented performers. He was known for his quiet and calming influence with often temperamental stars. Towards the end of his career he was studio boss for a short period.
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Little Johnny Jones (film) Little Johnny Jones is a 1929 black-and-white musical film released in the United States adapted from the musical play of the same name. The film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and main character Johnny Jones was played by Edward Buzzell.
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Irvin C. Miller Irvin Colloden Miller (February 19, 1884 – February 27, 1975) was an African-American actor, playwright and vaudeville show writer and producer. He was responsible for successful theater shows including "Broadway Rastus" (1921), "Liza" (1922), "Dinah" (1923), which introduced the wildly popular black bottom dance, and "Desires of 1927" starring Adelaide Hall. For thirty years he directed the popular review, "Brown Skin Models", influenced by the "Ziegfeld Follies" but exclusively using black performers. "In the 1920s and 1930s, he was arguably the most well-established and successful producer of black musical comedy."
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Millard Johnson (producer) Millard Johnson was an Australian film producer and exhibitor best known for his collaboration with William Gibson. He met Gibson when the latter was working as a chemist for Johnson's father's firm. The two of them formed the firm Johnson and Gibson, which was involved in exhibition, photography and film processing. He was probably cinematographer of early feature film "The Story of the Kelly Gang" (1906).
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Herbert Rawlinson Herbert Banemann Rawlinson (November 15, 1885 – July 12, 1953) was an English-born stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound films.
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Hollywood Goes Wild "Hollywood Goes Wild" is a unique album featuring Hollywood stars performing music. The compilation album of songs was produced by executive producer Ron Lovely of All Star Media. The album was created to benefit The Wildlife Waystation charity. It was released March 27, 2001 in the US. The album was produced by Ron Lovely and All-Star Media and distributed by Navarre Corporation.
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Naughty Baby (film) Naughty Baby is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Alice White as Rosalind McGill, a cloak room girl falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich. It was released in December 16, 1928 by First National Pictures.
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Michael Klinger (producer) Michael Klinger (1 November 1920 – 15 September 1989) was a British film producer and distributor. After Tony Tenser, then a publicist became his business partner, the two men created the Compton cinema chain and distribution company and financed "Repulsion" (1965) and "Cul-de-sac" (1966) both directed by Roman Polanski. After their association ended, Klinger produced "Get Carter" (1971), starring Michael Caine, and "Gold" (1974), with Roger Moore in the lead, and was the executive producer of the 'Confessions' series of sex comedies with Robin Askwith.