George Marton

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George Marton , born Georg Marton (born June 3, 1899 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † April 13, 1979 in West Hollywood , United States ) was a Hungarian-American writer , publisher , film agent and film producer .

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Born in Budapest, Georg Marton ran his own agency in Berlin until 1933, with which he looked after writers and film artists. As a result of the Nazis' seizure of power , Marton emigrated to Vienna in 1933, where he henceforth tried his hand at publishing. When Hitler's Germany annexed his first station in exile in March 1938, Georg Marton fled first to Paris and then to England. At the end of March 1939, he also left that country and settled in the United States.

Marton, who anglicized his first name there in George, was hired by MGM as a dramaturge in Hollywood in 1941 . In his non-working time, he served in the California State Guard. In Canada, immediately after the end of the war, George Marton produced the last two film productions by the Russian exile director Fedor Ozep , " La forteresse " and " Whispering City ", before he returned to Paris in 1949 as an agent for Twentieth Century Fox . After working as a production assistant on the Max Nosseck film " Kill or be Killed ", she concentrated on her own literary work. During this time he hardly made any contributions to the film industry. His spy novel " Catch Me a Spy " (published 1969) was filmed in 1970 with Kirk Douglas .

Filmography

  • 1946: La forteresse (production)
  • 1947: Whispering City (production)
  • 1950: Kill or be Killed (production assistant)
  • 1968: A Dirty Pile ( Play Dirty ) (story template only)
  • 1969: Spy under the hood (script for a German television film)

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literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 594.
personal data
SURNAME Marton, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marton, Georg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American writer, publisher, film agent, and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1979
Place of death West Hollywood , United States