George Barrie

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George Barrie (born February 9, 1912 in Brooklyn , New York City , United States , † November 16, 2002 in Aventura , Florida , United States) was an American entrepreneur and company manager , film composer ( songwriter ) and film producer .

Live and act

Barrie, who has always been a music enthusiast, grew up in Pittsfield, Mass., Where he taught himself to play the saxophone and the piano. He returned to his native New York at the age of 16, where he performed as a musician in bands and briefly attended the university there. He then went into business for himself in order to succeed as a businessman. His first own venture was the trade in drink dispensers in drugstores. He also worked as a salesman for the hair care products company Rayette and founded his own company with Caryl Richards. Many decades later, Barrie, whose company had now merged with Rayette, acquired Fabergé Inc. (1964) for $ 26 million, which also had hair care products and all kinds of perfumes in its production range. Barrie cleverly succeeded in convincing Hollywood celebrities such as Cary Grant , who could even be appointed to the Fabergé board of directors, Farrah Fawcett , Roger Moore and Laurence Harvey and, in later years, Margaux Hemingway, but also boxing legend Muhammad Ali , to Promote products. The extremely profitable fragrance for men “Brut” was Barrie's own creation.

Because of these film contacts, George Barrie also found access to the American entertainment industry in the 1970s, where he was able to combine his talent as a manager and entrepreneur with his long-neglected skills as a musician. He proved to be a talented songwriter and composed individual songs for a number of films, some of which he personally produced with his company Brut Productions. Two of them, highlighted with lines of text by Sammy Cahn , were nominated for an Oscar : 1973 “All That Love Went to Waste” for the very successful comedy Mann, Are You Class! and 1976 “Now That We're in Love” for the critically panned outfit Whiffs . After the flop of the last-named flick and other cinematic failures, George Barrie withdrew from the film and television industry again in the early 1980s. In 1984 the McGregor Corporation acquired Barries Fabergé and the entrepreneur retired to Aventura, Florida.

Filmography

  • 1972: Burned Skin ( Cry for Me, Billy ) (song contribution)
  • 1972: Man, are you great! ( A Touch of Class ) (song contribution)
  • 1973: The Night of a Thousand Eyes ( Night Watch ) (song contribution)
  • 1973: Welcome to Arrow Beach (song contribution)
  • 1974: Hangup (song contribution, line producer)
  • 1975: Cash - The unstoppable career of Private Ass ( Whiffs ) (song contribution, production)
  • 1975: Geliebte Geisel ( Sweet Hostage ) (song contribution, line producer)
  • 1975: The hippopotamus Hugo ( Hugó, a víziló ) (line producer)
  • 1975: Hedda Gabler ( Hedda ) (line producer)
  • 1975: I want, I want ... maybe? ( I Will I Will… For Now ) (song contribution, production)
  • 1976: Thieves (production)
  • 1976: An Unprecedented Affair ( Nasty Habits ) (line producer)
  • 1977: Fingers - tender and brutal ( Fingers ) (song contribution, production)
  • 1978: The Class of Miss MacMichael ( The Class of Miss MacMichael ) (line producer)
  • 1980. Valley of the Dolls (song contribution)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1991, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1991, p. 22

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personal data
SURNAME Barrie, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager, entrepreneur, film producer and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 2002
Place of death Aventura , Florida , United States