Henry Ginsberg

Henry Ginsberg (born May 8, 1897 in New York City , † June 10, 1979 in Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American film producer and film company manager.

Live and act

Not much is known about Ginsberg's early years and his education. He joined film management at the beginning of the 1920s and began producing himself for a short time in 1924. In 1925 he founded his own film distribution company with Henry Ginsberg Distributing Corporation in New York City. In the following years, Henry Ginsberg was active in various management positions, for example as head of Sterling Pictures in Pennsylvania, as general sales manager of Educational Pictures and finally in an unknown position at Preferred Pictures. In the 1930s, Ginsberg was also unnamed in the production of several Laurel & Hardy comedies.

In 1936, Henry Ginsberg joined Selznick International Pictures as General Manager and later became its Vice President. In 1940, Ginsberg was lured away from Paramount Pictures as vice president and general manager. In July 1950 he left Paramount again and was appointed General Consultant of the television station NBC in June 1951 . Eventually Ginsberg teamed up with George Stevens and founded Giant Productions in order to use this company flyover to film a novel by Edna Ferber . The result, Giants , not only meant Ginsberg's return to film production after three decades of absence. The film even earned him an Oscar nomination in 1957 .

Filmography

• 1924: Flying Fists
• 1925: Breaking In (short film)
• 1925: Hitting Hard (short film)
• 1925: Before Midnight (Director)
• 1925: Soft Muscles (short film)
• 1925: The Jazz Fight (short film)
• 1933: Laurel and Hardy: The Devil's Brother (anonymous)
• 1936: The Doppelgangers (Our Relations) (anonymous)
• 1956 giant (Giants)

literature

• International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 103

Web links

• Henry Ginsberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)