“[n]o Civil War picture ever made a nickel”
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Irving Thalberg
Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the Bounty, Camille, and The Good Earth. His films carved out an international market, "project…
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culture · American film producer (1899–1936) · film producer · screenwriter · film editor · manager · film screenwriter · studio manager · writer · director · production manager · also Irving Thalberg, Irving Grant Thalberg, Irving G. Thalberg, Thalberg
Born 30 May 1899 · Died 14 September 1936 · Q438472
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2026· 3 entries
“The difference between something good and something superior is often very small.”
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“I have seen all the film and you have all you need for the picture. I want you to stop shooting”
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2025· 3 entries
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Irving Thalberg, Motion Picture Executive, Dies Suddenly
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insider.si.edu: Irving Thalberg : boy wonder to producer prince / Mark A. Vieira
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Los Angeles Daily News: Kenneth Turan evokes classic Hollywood in ‘Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg’
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2021· 1 entry
The Hollywood Reporter: Irving Thalberg’s 1934 Column: “The Future of the Director”
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2020· 2 entries
Variety: Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood - Full Cast and Crew
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Thalberg is played by Ferdinand Kingsley in the David Fincher film Mank
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2010· 1 entry
LAist: Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's producer prince
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2008· 1 entry
Moviefone: Irving Thalberg: Hollywood's Boy Wonder - Where to Watch
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2005· 1 entry
Variety: Irving Thalberg
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960).
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1938· 1 entry
The new multimillion-dollar MGM administration building in Culver City was named for Thalberg
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1936· 2 entries
Died 1936-09-14.
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(Labor Day fell on September 7 that year), staying at the same beachfront hotel where they had spent their honeymoon
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1933· 1 entry
It was as one of MGM's unit producers, albeit one who had first choice on projects as well as preferential access to all the studio's resources, including over casting its stars
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1929· 1 entry
MGM released fifty films, and all but five showed a profit
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1927· 1 entry
After the successful release of the first full-length talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), he nevertheless felt that talking pictures were a fad
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1925· 2 entries
At the age of twenty-six, helping MGM become the most successful studio in Hollywood
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A young Greta Garbo, then twenty, and unable to speak any English, was brought over from Sweden at Mayer's request, as he saw how she looked in still photos
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1917· 1 entry
His mother (a Socialist Party activist herself), introduced him to mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit, who was impressed with the young Thalberg and hired him as a speechwriter
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-05-30.
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