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Hunt Stromberg (July 12, 1894 – August 23, 1968) was a film producer during Hollywood's Golden Age. In a prolific 30-year career beginning in 1921, Stromberg produced, wrote, and directed some of Hollywood's most profitable and enduring films, including The Thin Man series, the Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald operettas, The Women , and The ...
Hunt Stromberg Jr. (May 16, 1923 – November 24, 1986) was a Broadway, radio and television producer best remembered for the discovery and casting of Maila Nurmi as Vampira, and for producing the 1973 film Frankenstein: The True Story.
Hunt Stromberg was born on 12 July 1894 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Thin Man (1934), Sweethearts (1938) and Naughty Marietta (1935). He was married to Katherine Kerwin. He died on 23 August 1968 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Hunt Stromberg was the first producer added to the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers in 1942 after the group had been formed by Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn, Alexander Korda, Mary Pickford, David O. Selznick, Walter Wanger, and Orson Welles. Stromberg had been one of the key MGM executives for many years.
Hunt Stromberg was one of a handful of supervisory producers who helped create the great MGM films of the 1930s. As a protégé of Irving Thalberg, the boy-genius executive producer at MGM until his death in 1936, Stromberg helped bring together such classics as The Thin Man , Naughty Marietta , and Marie Antoinette .
Hunt Stromberg was born on July 12, 1894 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Thin Man (1934), Naughty Marietta (1935) and Sweethearts (1938). He was married to Katherine Kerwin. He died on August 23, 1968 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
In 1951, his wife Katherine Stromberg died suddenly of a heart attack after a bout with the flu. Hunt Stromberg, overcome with grief, never worked again. He died of a stroke in 1968. He had one son Hunt Stromberg Jr. who became a television producer in 1950s and is best known for discovering “Vampira.” His son died in 1986.
