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ADLER Buddy
Born Emanuel Maurice Adler.
Date of birth : June 22, 1908, New York.
Date of death : July 12, 1960, Los Angeles
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Addresses
*in 1950, 1159 Summit Drive, Los Angeles (
)*in 1960, 100 Delfern Drive, Los Angeles.
Story
He started his career by writing some advert articles for his father shoe's company.
He entered the show-business when the MGM hired him to participate to the scripts writings.
During this period, 1930s and 1940s, he wrote the scripts of several short films.
Registration Card, February 14, 1942
After his National Service in the US Signal Corps, he went back to Hollywood and became producer at the Columbia Pictures, where he overlooked several projects incuding "The Dark Past" (1948), "No Sad Songs For
Me" (1950) and "From Here to Eternity" (Best Film Award in 1953
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In 1956 he became the head of the production at Fox, replacing Darryl Zanuck at the head of the studio.
He will remained there until his death in 1960.
On May 17, 1940 he married the actress Anita Louise (January 9, 1915, New York-April 25, 1970, Los Angeles)
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) and Anthony Aaron (born on March 29, 1950, Los Angeles).On December 31, 1948, he attended the New Year's Eve at producer Sam Spiegel's house
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September 9, 1959, lunch at Fox in Nikita Khrouchtchev's honor
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January 16, 1960, press conference for the production of "Let's Make Love"
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April 12, 1960, on the production of "Let's Make Love"
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In 1960, shortly before his death, he took part in the preparation of "Cleopatra" (1963).
Other movies : "The Dark Past" (1948), "Tell It to the Judge" (1949), "A Woman of Distinction" (1950), "No Sad Songs For Me" (1950), " Sturday's Hero" (1951), "The Harlem Globetrotters" (1951), "Paula" (1952), "Last of the Comanches" (1952), "Salome" (1953), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "Violent Saturday" (1955), "Soldier of Fortune" (1955), "Love is a Many Splendor Thing" (1955), "The Left Hand of God" (1955), "House of Bamboo" (1955), The Revolt of Mamie Stover" (1956), "The Lieutenant Wore Skirts" (1956), "Bus Stop" (1956), "The Bottom of the Bottle" (1956), "Anastasia" (1956), "Heaven Knows Mr Allison" (1957), "A hatful of Rain" (1957), "South Pacific" (1958), "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" (1958).
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