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Beverly Hills, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Screenwriter; motion picture/radio program producer. Years active. 1932–1962. Spouse (s) Constance M. Polan (1941–1962; his death; 2 children) Jerome Irving Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962 [citation needed]) was an American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs.
Jerry Wald was a prolific and versatile Hollywood filmmaker who worked for Warner Brothers, RKO, Columbia and 20th Century Fox. He wrote and produced classics such as Mildred Pierce, Key Largo, An Affair to Remember and Peyton Place.
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- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Jerry Wald. Actor: Vacation Days. Clarinettist and bandleader, born Jervis Wald on January 15 in Newark, New Jersey. Jerry started on soprano saxophone at the age of seven, later taking up alto sax and clarinet. His role model was "the king of the clarinet", Artie Shaw. This reflected strongly in his playing and led to comparisons being drawn ...
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Jerry Wald. Producer: Key Largo. 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.
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The son of a dry goods salesman, Jerry Wald (16 September 1911, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA) 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. An avid reader, with an innate sense of literary judgement, Wald began in the industry in 1929 as a radio columnist with a less-then-glamorous publication, The New York Evening Graphic. At the ...
Jerry Wald's ambition, his often unbridled creative drive, and his desire to make every picture in town—all at once—characterized this highly energetic writer-producer from his arrival in Hollywood in 1933 until his untimely death in 1962.
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Jerry Wald is known as an Producer, Screenplay, Actor, Director, Writer, Story, Associate Producer, Executive Producer, and Additional Dialogue. Some of his work includes Key Largo, An Affair to Remember, Mildred Pierce, Dark Passage, The Long, Hot Summer, Let's Make Love, The Harder They Fall, and Clash by Night.
