Paul Kohner
Paul Kohner ( born March 29, 1902 in Teplitz- Schönau, Austria - Hungary, † March 16, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was an Austrian - American film producer and acting agent.
Life
Paul Kohner was discovered by Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal, on one of his many European trips. Laemmle took Kohner in 1921 and promoted him to Hollywood. Under Laemmle Kohner rose to producers and finally got the job in 1928 to lead the German Universal. Kohner founded in 1938 the European Film Fund, the displaced European filmmakers should assist in financial distress. As an agent, he oversaw Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Dolores del Río, Maurice Chevalier, Billy Wilder, Liv Ullmann, Henry Fonda, David Niven, Erich von Stroheim, Ingmar Bergman and Lana Turner.
Private life
Kohner was married to actress Lupita Tovar and the Mexican is the grandfather of Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz. His daughter is actress Susan Kohner.
Estate of the company
The estate of the agency of Paul Kohner was bought in 1988 by the German Cinematheque. The estate contained about five thousand client files, about a thousand scripts and thousands of letters. In 2013, 25 screenplays from the estate under the title " In the distance, the happiness - Stories for Hollywood" in the Aufbau Verlag Berlin issued. All published here screenplays were not filmed.