Tarzan, the Ape Man
1932
Search results
Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the ...
Irving Thalberg. Producer: The Unknown. Irving Grant Thalberg was born in New York City, to Henrietta (Haymann) and William Thalberg, who were of German Jewish descent. He had a bad heart, having contracted rheumatic fever as a teenager and was plagued with other ailments all of his life.
Sep 14, 2006 · Thalberg, MGM’s ‘Boy Wonder,’ dies. Sept. 14, 1936: Irving Thalberg, the head of production at MGM, died in his Santa Monica home at the age of 37. Thalberg, who had long suffered from ...
- www.encyclopedia.com
- › …
- › Historians, Miscellaneous: Biographies
May 21, 2018 · Known as "Boy Wonder" for his considerable power at an early age, Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) was an influential film executive, first at Universal, then Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Before his death at the age of 37, Thalberg helped redefine how movies are made within the studio system and became the consummate movie mogul.
May 25, 2024 · Irving Thalberg (born May 30, 1899, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 14, 1936, Santa Monica, California) was an American film executive called the “boy wonder of Hollywood” who, as the production manager of MGM, was largely responsible for that studio’s prestigious reputation.
Sep 18, 2015 · The Boy Genius and the “Jewish Hitler”. Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer, the tumultuous pair at the center of MGM’s box-office supremacy. By Karina Longworth. Louis B. Mayer, circa 1935 ...
Film producer Irving Thalberg, who launched countless successful movie careers and helped to shape the movie industry as we know it today, was born on the 30th of May, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York, to German immigrant parents.
Apr 10, 2022 · On Labor Day weekend in 1936, he took a short vacation at a lodge in Northern California. There, he came down with a simple cold which quickly developed into pneumonia. Within two weeks, Irving Thalberg was dead. The “Boy Wonder” was only 37 years old.
Aug 24, 1987 · Irving G. Thalberg Jr., a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the son of the late Irving Thalberg, the movie producer, died of cancer Friday at his home in Syracuse.
Sep 14, 2014 · On September 14, 1936, Irving Thalberg – the “Boy Wonder” of Hollywood; the producer who, while still in his 20s, turned MGM into Hollywood’s most successful moviemaker – died. He was 37 and had lasted seven years longer than doctors told him, as a child, he could expect.
