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The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is voted by the Academy’s Board of Governors and is presented to “creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.”. The award is a solid bronze head of Irving Thalberg, resting on a black marble base. It weighs 10 and 3/4 pounds and is nine ...
Sep 22, 2016 · Irving G. Thalberg began his career working under Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios, before eventaully he eventually worked his way up to the position of Head of Production at the classic Hollywood powerhouse Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at the ripe old age of 26.
Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) was the lone movie mogul with a true movie-star aura, personifying in death (and perhaps even in life) Hollywood’s presumed Golden Age. Animating spirit of the dream ...
Nov 5, 2009 · Hollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and opportunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and make stars of Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow.
Irving Grant Thalberg 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 Bounty, Camille and The Good Earth.
Irving Grant Thalberg, född 30 maj 1899 i Brooklyn i New York, död 14 september 1936 i Santa Monica i Kalifornien, var en amerikansk filmproducent, främst hos Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Han hade smeknamnet "Boy Wonder", på grund av sin ungdom och sina stora framgångar inom filmbranschen.
Sep 14, 2014 · Irving Grant Thalberg was born on May 30, 1899, at the Brooklyn apartment of his German-Jewish parents, William Thalberg and the former Henrietta Heymann. Early on, he was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, and his parents were told he could well be dead by age 20, certainly by 30.
