Mark Hellinger

John Mark Hellinger ( born March 21, 1903 in New York City; † December 21, 1947 in Los Angeles ) was an American journalist and film producer.

Life and work

After Hellinger had to leave because of the organization of a student strike, the Townsend Harris High School at age 15, he worked as a waiter and copywriter until he joined in 1921 as a columnist at the theater magazine Zit 's Weekly. In 1923 he joined the Daily News in 1930 for the New York Daily Mirror, where his columns behind the scenes of Broadway, the great popularity enjoyed about the event. Among his personal acquaintances included also underworld greats like Dutch Schultz and Jack " Legs" Diamond.

1937 Hellinger received an offer to start as a producer and writer in film production company Warner Bros.. He produced several smaller films and provided, among other things, the template for the script for the gangster film The Roaring Twenties ( 1939). His first major success as a producer was High Sierra, Humphrey Bogart's career brought the above critical. After a short stint at 20th Century Fox, he returned to Warner. 1944 Hellinger worked as a war correspondent for the Hearst press. He then founded his own film company and worked as an independent producer for Universal Studios, starting with the 1946 premiered avenger of the world. The premiere of his last completed film, City without a mask, Hellinger did not live: end of 1947, he died only 44 years old of a heart attack.

Filmography as producer (selection)

Awards

Aftereffect

1948 called Anthony Brady Farrell, owner of New York's "Hollywood Theater " to its venue in honor of the recently deceased Hellinger in "Mark Hellinger Theatre". The theater remained until the late 1980s in operation.

Richard Brooks, a protégée Hellinger, immortalized his patron in the 1951 novel, The Producer.