Curt Melnitz

Curt Melnitz , also Curtis Melnitz , (born on May 2, 1879 in Leipzig , German Empire as Kurt Chmelnitzki , died in 1962 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a German-American press representative, artist agent, studio representative and film producer .

Life

Melnitz came to the USA in 1905 and was naturalized on February 24, 1911. In the early 1920s he worked as a press and company representative for American film companies in Los Angeles and Berlin, such as the United Artists . In 1923 Melnitz served as President of Little Theater Films, Inc. in Los Angeles. As a representative of American production companies, he signed a film contract with Max Reinhardt in May 1930 . Immediately afterwards, Curt Melnitz worked briefly (1930/31) on four films for the Berlin Terra Film AG as a producer. After 1933, as a Jew in Germany, he was highly endangered and probably returned to the USA. In 1938 he is said to have traveled back to his hometown Leipzig in order to urgently persuade his relatives who remained there to leave Germany. Melnitz's later professional activities are currently unknown, he was probably still active in the US in the press and film management in Hollywood.

Familiar

Curt Melnitz was married to Grace Pauling and had Wilhelm (William) Wolf Melnitz (1900-1989), a Cologne- born nephew. He was a theater director who had once started as Max Reinhardt's assistant and later became dean of the fine arts department at UCLA . UCLA's Melnitz Hall was set up in his honor .

Films (as producer)

• 1930: The company gets married
• 1930: The man who committed the murder
• 1930: The murderer Dimitri Karamasoff
• 1931: Who takes love seriously?

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] and [2] date of birth according to ancestry com
2. ↑ Naturalization according to ancestry.com
3. ↑ According to cinema-ucla
4. ↑ According to lewinsky.ch

Web links

• Curt Melnitz at filmportal.de
• Curt Melnitz in the Internet Movie Database (English)