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Joseph E. Levine. Joseph Edward Levine (September 9, 1905 – July 31, 1987) was an American film distributor, financier, and producer. At the time of his death, it was said he was involved in one or another capacity with 497 films. Levine was responsible for the U.S. releases of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Attila and Hercules, which ...
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- Joseph Edward Levine, September 9, 1905, Boston, Massachusetts, US
- 1937–1987
- Embassy Pictures
Joseph E. Levine. Producer: The Lion in Winter. Boston-born Joseph E. Levine parlayed an early career as a film exhibitor and distributor of Italian-made muscle-man pictures into a highly successful stint as America's most successful independent producer at the time of his death.
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- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Aug 1, 1987 · Joseph Edward Levine was born in a Boston slum on Sept. 9, 1905, the youngest of six children of a Russian immigrant tailor. He spent his childhood hustling pennies - as newsboy, shoeshine boy ...
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Aug 1, 1987 · Aug. 1, 1987 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Joseph E. Levine, the one-time Boston shoeshine boy who became a multimillionaire movie mogul with saturation screening and intense publicity campaigns ...
Joseph E. Levine. Producer: The Lion in Winter. Boston-born Joseph E. Levine parlayed an early career as a film exhibitor and distributor of Italian-made muscle-man pictures into a highly successful stint as America's most successful independent producer at the time of his death. Born on September 9, 1905, Levine first worked in the clothing industry before buying a movie house in New Haven ...
- September 9, 1905
- July 31, 1987
Joseph Edward Levine was an American film distributor, financier, and producer. At the time of his death, it was said he was involved in one or another capacity with 497 films. Levine was responsible for the U.S. releases of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, Attila and Hercules, which helped revolutionize U.S. film marketing, and was founder and president of Embassy Pictures.
Joseph Levine was born in the West End, on September 9, 1905, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. The youngest of six children, Levine and his family moved between tenements on Poplar Street, Minot Street, Hollander Street, and Billerica Street. His father, a tailor, died when Levine was four; Levine’s mother soon re-married but divorced ...