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Joseph Herman Pasternak (born József Paszternák; September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood.Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther Williams' films.
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Joe Pasternak (1901-1991) Joe Pasternak. The son of an out-of-work bookkeeper, Pasternak arrived in the U.S. from Hungary in 1921. After working in a belt factory in Philadelphia, he moved to New York where he plucked chickens and worked in a cafeteria. Becoming increasingly infatuated with the film business, it didn't take him long to find a ...
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Sep 18, 1991 · Joe Pasternak, a Hungarian immigrant who rose through the film industry's ranks to produce films including "Destry Rides Again" and "The Student Prince," died at his home on Friday, six days ...
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Sep 17, 1991 · Sept. 17, 1991 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Joe Pasternak, the masterful producer of film musicals whose 105 pictures reflected his own Old Country taste and optimism, has died at his Beverly ...
Sep 13, 1991 · From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Herman "Joe" Pasternak (September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was an Hungarian-born American film producer in Hollywood. He was born to a Jewish family in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (now Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania). His father was a town clerk and Pasternak was one of eleven children. In 1920 he emigrated to the US as a teenager and went ...
Producer Born Sept. 19, 1901 in Szilagy-Smolyo, Hungary. Died Sept. 13, 1991 of Parkinson's disease in Beverly Hills, Calif. J oe Pasternak was a masterful producer of film musicals whose 105 pictures reflected his own Old Country taste and optimism. In a career that spanned 40 years, Pasternak developed such musical prodigies as Deanna Durbin ...
Joseph Herman Pasternak was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther Williams' films. He produced Judy Garland's final MGM film, Summer Stock, which was ...
