James A. Lebenthal
James "Jim" Avram Lebenthal ( born June 22, 1928) is an American financial expert and author. As a film producer and screenwriter, he was nominated in 1959 with his single movie T Is for Tumbleweed for an Oscar.
Life
Lebenthal graduated in 1949 from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts and then worked among other things as a journalist for Life and NBC, in film production at The Walt Disney Company and as a copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam.
Lebenthal was producer and screenwriter of the 1958 resulting directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen short film T Is for Tumbleweed with the then five- year-old child actress Anne Lockhart. For this film, he was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1959 for an Oscar for best short film.
In 1963 he joined the hitherto guided by his mother Sayra Fischer Lebenthal Lebenthal & Company, which acted mainly with municipal bonds ( municipal bonds). In the 1970s he created for municipal bonds an extensive marketing campaign with TV and radio spots, with him his knowledge from his previous activities benefited from advertising agencies. In 1995, he left the management of his daughter Alexandra Lebenthal. In 2001, she sold the company to Advest, Inc. for 25 million U.S. dollars. In 2006 he retired from active business at Lebenthal & Company, as the parent company Advest, Inc. was sold to Merrill Lynch. In the same year his first non-fiction book Confessions of a Municipal Bond Salesman appeared. Two years later he teamed up with his daughter companies Lebenthal & Co. LLC and Wealth and Family Office Management, Alexandra & James.
For his work in the financial sector Lebenthal has been honored, among others, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and The Bond Market Association awards for his life's work.
Private life
Lebenthal was married until her death with Jacqueline Beymer Lebenthal ( 1930-2010 ). From this marriage the daughters Claudia and Alexandra and son Jim went out.
Writings
- Jim Lebenthal, Bernice Kanner: Confessions of a Municipal Bond Salesman. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, 226 pages, ISBN 978-0471771746
- Jim Lebenthal: Lebenthal On Munis - Straight Talk About Tax-Free Municipal Bonds For The Troubled Investor Deciding " Yes ... " or Morgan James Publishing, 2009, 160 pages, ISBN 978-1600376566 " No! "