Samuel Marx
Samuel Marx ( born January 26, 1902 in New York City; † March 2, 1992 in Los Angeles ) was an American film producer, screenwriter and writer.
Life and work
Samuel Marx worked since 1919 as an assistant in the New York office of the film production company, Universal Pictures, where he met Irving Thalberg, who was still working at this time for Carl Laemmle in 1924 but moved to Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. 1930 hired Thalberg him for MGM as a manager, making him responsible for the screenplay department. After Thalberg's death in 1936 Marx was producer and produced for MGM, including two "Lassie" movies. For the first of these, homesickness, he became involved in 1942 the ten-year, as yet unknown Elizabeth Taylor for which therefore a binding contract to MGM emerged that should remain until 1959. Another movie that Marx produced for MGM, the musical comedy was My husband wants to marry ( Grounds for Marriage ) with Van Johnson and Kathryn Grayson. The story of this film comes from his pen.
In the early 1950s, Marx left MGM and worked as a producer first for changing film companies and from 1955 to mainly for television.
1990 Marx published together with Joyce Vanderveen the book Deadly Illusions, a report on the end of the film producer Paul Bern, who died in 1932 in Los Angeles, not quite unclear circumstances.
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- Joyce Vanderveen: Deadly Illusions: Jean Harlow and the Murder of Paul Bern, Random House, 1990, ISBN 0394582187