Jennings Lang

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jennings Lang (born May 28, 1915 in New York City , United States , † May 29, 1996 in Palm Desert , California , United States) was an American film producer .

Live and act

Lang had studied law at St. John's University and then (1937) joined the law firm Seligsburg & Lewis, which specialized in clients in the film industry. The following year, Lang moved to Hollywood and was taken over by the small production company Grand National Studios as the second assistant director. He then opened his own agency for actors. Lang's first client was the stage, vaudeville and film comedian Hugh Herbert . In 1940 Jennings Lang joined the much larger Jaffe Agency, of which he became Vice President in 1942. Lang was president of this agency from 1948 to 1950, after which he moved to the Multi MCA . Lang initially worked as a production manager for MCA, which is closely linked to the film production company Universal Pictures .

In this role, Lang was primarily involved in developing ideas for television series such as 'Wagon Train', 'The Robert Cummings Show', 'Wells Fargo' and 'Mike Hammer' . Another area of ​​Lang's work was the sale of these MCA products. Since the end of the 1960s, his employer had him produce a series of universal cinema productions as a production manager (so-called executive producer). In the 1970s, Jennings Lang mainly produced films with masculine stars like Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman , later also several action thrillers and comedies with Walter Matthau as well as disaster epics such as earthquakes and various airport strips ( giants in the sky , missing in the Bermuda Triangle , airport '80 - The Concorde ). After suffering a stroke in 1983, Jennings Lang retired from the film business.

Trivia

In 1951, Lang's alleged relationship with film star Joan Bennett, five years his senior, became almost relationship. Bennett's husband at the time, the film producer Walter Wanger , got wind of it, shot Lang on the doorstep and wounded him in the thigh and groin area. Wanger only had to go to prison for four months for this outburst of jealousy after pleading insanity.

In 1956 Jennings Lang married actress Monica Lewis . The marriage lasted until his death four decades later.

Filmography

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Long, Jennings
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1996
Place of death Palm Desert , California , United States