Henry T. Weinstein

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Henry T. Weinstein (born July 12, 1924 in New York City , United States , † September 17, 2000 in Boca Raton , Florida , USA) was an American theater operator and film producer .

Life

Weinstein attended City College in his hometown New York in the 1940s and then studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology , where he graduated with a Master's Degree. In the 1950s, Weinstein turned completely to the stage and directed the Brattle Theater and the Theater in the Round in Houston, Texas. He then worked as a producer for the New York Theater Guild. Immediately before the beginning of the following decade, he produced plays for US television as part of the “Play of the Week” series in 1959/60. This meant his entry into the film and television industry.

In 1961, 20th Century Fox brought Weinstein over to propose the film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel Tenderly is the Night , directed by Hollywood veteran Henry King . The following year (1962) Weinstein was also supposed to produce the Marilyn Monroe film Something's Got to Give , but in the face of various escapades of the blonde diva, the filming did not come to an end and the film remained unfinished.

In the following years Weinstein had to limit himself to the activity of an executive producer and in this role he was also involved in the creation of several international, only American-financed large-scale productions such as Cervantes - The King's Adventurer and The Battle of the Neretva . In 1990 he retired into private life and in the same year gave information about the difficult work with the Monroe in the documentary Marilyn: Her Last Film .

Weinstein was not related to the two producer brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1991, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1991, p. 338

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personal data
SURNAME Weinstein, Henry T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater maker and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 2000
Place of death Boca Raton , Florida