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Nov 17, 2012 · Wald was the widow of Jerry Wald, who earned Oscar nominations for producing the popular melodramas Peyton Place (1957) and Sons and Lovers (1960) as well as such classics as Mildred Pierce (1945 ...
Jerry Wald and His Orchestra. Actor: Little Miss Broadway. Swing outfit led by clarinettist Jerry Wald and launched at Child's Spanish Garden in New York City in 1941. Between 1942 and 1943, the band enjoyed a lengthy tenure at the Lincoln Hotel and at the Panther Room of the Hotel Sherman.
Wald signed a contract with 20th Century Fox where he established Jerry Wald Productions. He had a solid hit with An Affair to Remember (1957) starring Grant and Deborah Kerr , and some minor ones with No Down Payment (1957) directed by Martin Ritt , and Kiss Them for Me (1957) with Grant.
The son of a dry goods salesman, Jerry Wald was the go-getting Hollywood writer-producer of popular imagination: charismatic, ambitious, shrewd, frequently brilliant, and filled with a nervous energy driving him from one project to another.
American producer Jerry Wald had purchased the film rights to D. H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers in the 1950s, intending to produce the film in the United States, with Montgomery Clift as Paul Morel and Marilyn Monroe as one of his girlfriends.
Jerry Wald va començar a escriure una columna per al New York Graphic mentre estudiava a la Universitat de Nova York. Aquesta ocupació li va facilitar produir diversos curts Rambling 'Round Radio Row el 1932 i 1933 per a Vitaphone , la divisió de Warner Brothers dedicada als curts.
At a breakneck pace, Wald produced some 50-plus pictures, from melodramas like the Joan Crawford vehicle "Mildred Pierce" to John Huston's Bogart-and-Bacall noir classic "Key Largo"; meanwhile, he ...
