Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Carl Laemmle Jr. ( born April 28, 1908 in Chicago, † September 24, 1979 in Los Angeles ) was an American film producer.
Carl Laemmle Jr. career as a film producer at Universal Studios began at a young age, as his father Carl Laemmle to monitor, head of Universal Studios, asked him to create the production of short films. In 1929, Laemmle, Jr., age 21, production manager of the studio. One of the changes, which he sat was to raise the quality of the films produced at Universal.
One of the first productions Laemmle was on the Western Front (All quiet on the Western Front) in 1930, which won two Oscars, for Best Picture and Best Director. In the same year Laemmle Dracula produced and thus heralded the first horror film boom of Hollywood. After Dracula followed Frankenstein and The Mummy, two more original films of the Universal. By the year 1936, the Universal Studios produced under Carl Laemmle Jr. many horror films that are now considered classics of the genre. This includes films such as The Bride of Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, and The Invisible Man.
1936 brought Laemmle's elaborate production of the musical film version of Show Boat Studio in financial trouble, so he and his father were forced to resign.