Sam Jaffe (film producer)

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Sam Jaffe (born May 21, 1901 in New York City , United States , † January 10, 2000 in Los Angeles ) was an American artist agent and film producer .

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Born in the New York borough of Harlem , the descendant of Russian-Jewish immigrants had three older siblings and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan . After Jaffe left DeWitt Clinton High School, he joined the film production company Famous Players-Lasky Corporation towards the end of World War I , where he started out as a delivery boy. In 1920 he came to Mayer-Schulberg Production, where his brother-in-law BP Schulberg worked in a leading position. Jaffe was promoted to studio manager and in 1922 was entrusted with the head of film production at BP Schulberg Production. He held the same position after moving to Paramount Pictures , where he was responsible for production supervision for six years until 1929. During these years Sam Jaffe was directly involved in the production of film productions by important directors such as Ernst Lubitsch , Josef von Sternberg and Rouben Mamoulian and thus played a decisive role in saving Paramount from bankruptcy. In the early years of sound film 1930 to 1932 Jaffe worked as production manager and personal assistant in the service of David O. Selznick at RKO , in 1933 he moved to Columbia Pictures as assistant to Sam Briskin . In those two years 1932/33 Jaffe also appeared for the first time as a personal film producer.

In 1934 Sam Jaffé temporarily left the film business as a company manager and joined the Schulberg-Feldman Agency, which was now called Schulberg-Feldman-Jaffe. Two years later he founded his own artist agency, the Jaffe Agency. In the following years, Sam Jaffe only rarely returned to film production, but with his last two works, the cozy lioness story Born Free - Queen of the Wild and the highly amusing horror comedy Theater des Grauens , two big box office and critics hits. Nevertheless, the agency business remained Jaffe's main business, and in the golden years of Hollywood he represented industry greats such as Fritz Lang , Raoul Walsh , Stanley Kubrick , David Niven , Richard Burton , Barbara Stanwyck , Jennifer Jones as well as Humphrey Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall . In 1949 Jaffe sold his agency and moved to London ten years later. In 1985 Sam Jaffe returned to Los Angeles, where he distinguished himself as an art collector and joined the Extension's Plato Society (an acronym for Perpetual Learning and Teaching Organization) at the University of California .

Jaffe was married and had three daughters.

Filmography

literature

  • International Television Almanac 1985, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1985, pp. 131 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Jaffe, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American acting manager and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Harlem , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2000
Place of death los Angeles