Daniel Frohman
Daniel Frohman (born August 22, 1851 in Sandusky , Ohio , † December 26, 1940 in New York ) was an American theater director and one of the first film producers .
Life
Like his brother Charles Frohman, Frohman was first an actor and then a theater director. At times he led the " Madison Square Theater ", where he worked with David Belasco , whose first play " May Blossom " he staged. He organized touring theaters throughout the United States while the original performances were simultaneously in New York. From 1885 to 1909 he was director of the “Lyceum Theater” and its ensemble.
The immense artistic and financial success of the Frohman brothers rested on two pillars: On the one hand, a kind of "star system", in which the increasingly well-known actors became more important than the produced piece, and exclusive contracts with some aspiring, and some established British dramatists such as Arthur Wing Pinero , James M. Barrie, and Frances Hodgson Burnett .
Frohman entered the film industry when he and Adolph Zukor and Edwin S. Porter founded the Famous Players Film Company in 1912 , which was later renamed Paramount . On July 12 of this year, the film " Queen Elizabeth " with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role was premiered in the "Lyceum Theater". The specially composed accompanying music was played by a large orchestra. The premiere was a great success and contributed to the “breakthrough of the full-length feature film in the USA”.
Between 1913 and 1917, Frohman produced more than seventy films with Zukor, in which most of the famous theater actors who had been sponsored by Frohman appeared.
Web links
- Daniel Frohman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Daniel Frohman in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ MADISON SQUARE THEATER ( Memento from April 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Star System; Theatrical trusts; Charles and Daniel Frohman. Bartleby.com, accessed July 3, 2017 .
- ↑ 90 years of Paramount - an unprecedented success story ( Memento from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frohman, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theater director and one of the first film producers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sandusky , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 1940 |
| Place of death | new York |