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Has no ancestors but 2 descendants in this family tree.
1908 - 1970 (62 years)
Birth |
28 Apr 1908 |
Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Died |
24 Sep 1970 |
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Father |
Carl Laemmle |
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Family |
Margaret Sullavan, b. 19 May 1911, Norfolk, Virginia, USA |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Carl Laemmle |
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Family |
Irving Thalberg, b. 30 May 1899, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA |
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Name |
Carl Laemmle |
Gender |
Male |
Person ID |
I331579 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
2 Apr 2002 |
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Notes |
- The father of Universal Pictures, was reputedly the most good-natured and least neurotic of the studio bosses. After immigrating to America in 1884, spent the next decade at a series of dead-end jobs, mostly in Chicago, then worked for another twelve years at a dry-goods store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A salary dispute led Laemmle to quit; he returned to Chicago with hopes of acquiring a store of his own, but he bought a nickelodeon instead. Soon Laemmle had also established a film distribution business that became one of the largest in America. In 1909, he produced his first picture, a 15-minute version of Longfellow's "Hiawatha". By this time Laemmle had become a leader of the "Independents, " producers and distributors who defied the would-be monopolists of Edison's Patents Company . In the late 1910s, Laemmle's company, Universal, was the country's leading film producer; its California facility, Universal City, was built in 1915. Although Laemmle made a handful of prestige productions, such as Blind Husbands (1919) and Foolish Wives (1922), his output consisted mostly of low-budget westerns and melodramas, churned out in a process designed to resemble a factory.
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