Jerry Wald (film producer)

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Jerry Wald (born September 16, 1911 in Brooklyn , New York City , † July 13, 1962 in Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , California , actually Jerome Irving Wald ) was an American screenwriter and film producer .

Life

Born in Brooklyn, Wald went to Hollywood , where he initially worked as a screenwriter, primarily for Warner Brothers . He was used as a screenwriter for Going Places and the Raoul Walsh films The Wild Twenties (1939) and Night Out (1940). From 1941 he also worked as a film producer at Warner. His productions include a number of war films such as Operation in the North Atlantic (1943) with Humphrey Bogart as well as several film dramas with Joan Crawford , including Solange ein Herz Beats (1945), Humoreske (1946), Unrestrained Love (1947) and The Road to Success ( 1949).

As the producer of Embers under the Ashes (1957) and Sons and Lovers (1960), Wald was twice nominated for an Oscar . In 1949 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award . In 1957 and 1958 he also produced the Oscars. He died of a heart attack in his Beverly Hills home in 1962 at the age of 50 . His grave is in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale , California .

From 1941, Wald was married to Constance “Connie” Emily Polan (1916–2012), with whom he had two sons. His younger brother Malvin Wald (1917-2008) followed him to Hollywood, where he also worked as a screenwriter.

Filmography (selection)

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production

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Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Connie Wald, Whose Meals Became a Hollywood Tradition, Dies at 96 . In: The New York Times , November 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Forest, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woods, Jerome Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1962
Place of death Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , United States