Merritt Hulburd
Merritt J. Hulburd (born March 6, 1903 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † January 22, 1939 in West Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American journalist and film producer who was nominated for an Oscar for best picture.
Life
Hulburd initially worked as a journalist and was most recently co- editor -in- chief of the weekly newspaper The Saturday Evening Post for six years before starting his work in the Hollywood film industry in the mid-1930s as a story editor for the film production company Paramount Pictures .
Between 1936 and 1937, Hulburd produced five films with Samuel Goldwyn . For their first joint production, Zeit der Liebe, Zeit des Abschied (Dodsworth, 1936) by William Wyler with Walter Huston , Ruth Chatterton and Paul Lukas , they were both nominated for an Oscar for best film at the 1937 Academy Awards.
In early 1938, he returned to The Saturday Evening Post despite the much lower pay , saying that his $ 15,000 journalist salary would not even cover the taxes he had previously earned on his $ 100,000 salary in Hollywood. In June 1938, however, illness forced him to quit his job with the Saturday Evening Post. A few months before his death, film producer David O. Selznick offered him a collaboration, but this never happened because of Hulburd's death.
Filmography
- 1936: time of love, time of parting ( Dodsworth )
- 1936: Take What You Can Get ( Come and Get It )
- 1937: Stella Dallas
- 1937: Dead End ( Dead End )
- 1937: ... then came the hurricane ( The Hurricane )
Web links
- Merritt Hulburd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hulburd, Merritt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hulburd, Merritt J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1939 |
| Place of death | West Palm Beach , Florida |