Sam Zimbalist

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Sam Zimbalist (born March 31, 1904 in New York , NY , USA , † November 4, 1958 in Rome , Italy ) was an American film producer and film editor .

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Zimbalist went straight to film from school in 1920 and began his professional career as an assistant editor. In the mid-1920s he established himself as a film editor with the children's book adaptation Auf nach Illustrien ; Editing of films such as The Foreign Devils (1927), When the City Sleeps ... (While the City Sleeps, 1928), The Burglar King of New York (aka Jimmy Valentine, 1928) followed by the end of the decade. , Liebe à la Mode (Our Modern Maidens, 1929), Broadway Melodie 1929 (The Broadway Melody). With the dawn of the sound film age, MGM film producer Hunt Stromberg brought him to his side as an assistant.

Sam Zimbalist began working as a producer for MGM with a Tarzan film in 1936. Already at the beginning of the Second World War he moved up to the top tier among the producers of the industry giant with two expensive Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy productions. Zimbalist's output remained quite clear until the end, almost all Zimbalist productions of the 1950s were complex large-scale productions, which, however, did not always mean a box-office success. His most important works include the two monumental films Quo vadis? by Mervyn LeRoy and Ben Hur by William Wyler . Zimbalist succumbed to a myocardial infarction while making this latter film . For this he posthumously received the Oscar for best production , for which he had already won for Quo vadis? was nominated.

Other well-known Zimbalist productions were Tarzan and his Son (1939), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), King Solomon's Diamonds with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (1950), Mogambo with Grace Kelly , Ava Gardner and Clark Gable (1953) and Beau Brummel - rebel and seducer with Stewart Granger, Peter Ustinov and Elizabeth Taylor (1954).

Filmography (selection)

As an editor

  • 1925: On to Illustrien ( The Wizard of Oz )
  • 1927: The foreign devils ( The Foreign Devils )
  • 1927: Hair Cut
  • 1928: The Adventurer
  • 1928: quick, a baby! ( Baby mine )
  • 1928: When the City Sleeps ... ( While the City Sleeps )
  • 1928: The Burglar King of New York ( aka Jimmy Valentine )
  • 1929: Love à la Mode ( Our Modern Maidens )
  • 1929: Broadway Melody 1929 ( The Broadway Melody )

As a producer

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personal data
SURNAME Zimbalist, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY , USA
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1958
Place of death Rome , Italy