Joe Pasternak
Joseph "Joe" Herman Pasternak ( born September 19, 1901 in Szilágysomlyó, Austria - Hungary (now Romania); † September 13, 1991 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film producer of Hungarian origin.
Life
Joe Pasternak was born in 1901 as son of Jewish parents in the former Austria - Hungary. In 1929, he began his career as a film producer in the Weimar Republic, where he first worked frequently with director William Dieterle. After coming to power of the Nazis, he produced for a while movie musicals for the European branch of Universal Studios before he emigrated in 1936 to the United States, where he continued to work for Universal. With the successful film comedy Three cute girls (Three Smart Girls), he helped the 14 -year-old Deanna Durbin 1936 breakthrough in Hollywood. Directed by Henry Koster, with the Pasternak as a specialist in film musicals still turned seven other Durbin movies.
His most famous productions include the comedy Western Destry Rides Again ( Destry Rides Again ) with James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, which could make a comeback with the film. This was followed by the films The House of the Seven Sins (Seven Sinners, 1940) and The Adventurer ( The Flame of New Orleans, 1941), in which Marlene Dietrich each again played a major role.
1941 Pasternak moved to MGM, where he also especially movie musicals produced, including holidays in Hollywood ( Anchors Aweigh, 1945) with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra and The Great Caruso ( The Great Caruso ) with Mario Lanza tenor Enrico Caruso.
After more than 90 film productions Pasternak went into retirement in 1968. In 1939 he was nominated for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In his later career he received ten nominations for the Laurel Award for Best Producer.
In his first marriage he was married to Margaret wavy grain. Later he married Dorothy Darrel, with whom he remained until his death.
In 1991 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year he died at the age of 89 years from Parkinson's disease, and he was buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City.