Irving Grant Thalberg (May 30, 1899 – September 14, 1936) was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and his extraordinary ability to select the right scripts, choose the right actors, gather the best production staff, and make very profitable films. is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). ... See also: 1920 in film 1921 1922 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres. ... See also: 1935 in film 1936 1937 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events January 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon September 28 - The Marx Brothers Harpo Marx marries actress Susan Fleming Top grossing films in North America Red River Valley Academy Awards Best Picture: The Great... Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 (some sources indicate 1900) – June 12, 1983) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-American actress. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Biography

Thalberg was born in Brooklyn, New York to German Jewish immigrant parents. He had a bad heart and was plagued with other ailments all his life. Upon completing high school, he was employed by Universal Pictures' New York office, where he worked as personal secretary to legendary studio founder Carl Laemmle, the boss of Universal Studios. Irving Thalberg was bright and persistent, and by age 21 was executive in charge of production at Universal City, the studio's California production site. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Carl Laemmle Birthplace of Carl Laemmle in Laupheim Carl Laemmle (17 January 1867 – 24 September 1939), born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios. ... This article is about the American media conglomerate. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

He quickly established his tenacity as he battled with Erich von Stroheim over the length of Foolish Wives (1922), and controlled every aspect of the production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). In 1924, he left Universal for Louis B. Mayer Productions, which shortly thereafter linked up with Metro Pictures Corporation to become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian - American star of the silent film age, lauded for his directional work in which he was a proto-auteur. ... The Hunchback of Notre Dame (original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Metro Studios, Culver City, CA. in 1918 Metro Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Richard A. Rowland (1880-1947) and Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957). ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ...

Thalberg is also famous for creating the "unit production management scheme", by which Hollywood productions are split more definitively into "units", thus spreading out the creative control of a film among producers, directors, etc.

The Big Parade (1925), directed by King Vidor, was Thalberg's first major triumph at MGM. Until 1932, when he suffered a major heart attack, he supervised every important studio production, and combined careful preproduction groundwork with prerelease sneak previews which measured audience response. The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film which tells the story of an idle rich boy who is shipped off to France to fight World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. ... King Vidor King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director. ... Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ...

At the time he joined Metro Pictures, Thalberg was dating actress Norma Shearer whom he married in 1927. He wanted her to be a stay-at-home mother but she insisted she be given better roles and went on to be MGM's biggest star of the 1930s. They had two children, Irving Jr. (1930–1988) and Katherine (1935-2006). Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 (some sources indicate 1900) – June 12, 1983) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-American actress. ... Irving Thalberg Jr. ...

Upon Thalberg's illness, Louis B. Mayer, who had come to resent Thalberg's power and success, replaced him with David O. Selznick and Walter Wanger. When he returned to work in 1933, it was as one of the studio's unit producers. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... David O. Selznick David Oliver Selznick (May 10, 1902–June 22, 1965), was one of the icon Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. ... Walter Wanger (July 11, 1894 - November 18, 1968) was an important American film producer. ...

Nonetheless, he helped develop some of MGM's most prestigious ventures, including Grand Hotel (1932), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), China Seas (1935), A Night at the Opera (1935) with the Marx Brothers, San Francisco (1936), and Romeo and Juliet (1936). Grand Hotel is a 1932 art deco movie, and is considered as a classic of the sort. ... Mutiny on the Bounty, based on the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff, is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. ... The China Sea can refer to the: South China Sea, or East China Sea This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A Night at the Opera is a 1935 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers. ... This article is about the comedian siblings. ... The 1906 San Francisco earthquake is the historical background for San Francisco, a 1936 movie romance between a gambling hall tycoon, played by Clark Gable, and a promising but poor singer. ... The 1936 movie adaptation of Shakespeares play, Romeo and Juliet was directed by George Cukor, with a screenplay written by Talbot Jennings. ...

Death

Thalberg died of pneumonia at age 37 in Santa Monica, California. ^[1] He was working on the preproduction of A Day at the Races (1937), and Marie Antoinette (1938). This article is about human pneumonia. ... For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). ... Code book scene A Day at the Races A Day at the Races (1937) is the seventh movie starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones and Maureen OSullivan. ... Marie Antoinette was a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...

Legacy

His name appeared on the screen in only two pictures. The credit for his final film, The Good Earth (1937) reads: "To the Memory of Irving Grant Thalberg his last greatest achievement we dedicate this picture". Another dedication to him appeared in the opening credits of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), a film that Thalberg set into motion, but never lived to see. The Good Earth (1937) is a movie based on the 1931 book of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck about Chinese peasants who try to survive a locust invasion. ... Goodbye, Mr. ...

While alive, he refused to let his name appear in any of his films, and was quoted as saying, "Credit you give yourself is not worth having".

The new multi-million dollar Administration Building built on the old MGM Studios in Culver City (Now Sony Pictures Studios) was named after him two years after his death. Motto: The Heart of Screenland Location of Culver City in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1917-09-07 [2] Government  - City Manager Jerry Fulwood [1] Area  - City  5. ... The Sony Pictures Studios are located on 10202 West Washington Boulevard in Culver City, California. ...

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is named for him. The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically (although not every year) at the Academy Awards ceremonies to Creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production. ... Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study in Hollywood, California Founded on May 11, 1927 in California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald based the character of Monroe Stahr in The Last Tycoon on Thalberg. In the film version (1976) he was played by Robert De Niro. Thalberg was also portrayed in the movie Man of a Thousand Faces by Robert Evans, who went on to become the producer of Chinatown and The Godfather. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. ... Categories: Literature stubs | 1941 books | 1994 books | Novels ... Robert De Niro in 1988 Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American film actor, director, and producer. ... Man of a Thousand Faces film poster Man of a Thousand Faces is a movie detailing the life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney Sr. ... This article is about sections of an urban area associated with a large number of Chinese residents or commercial activities. ... This article is about the 1972 film. ...

Thalberg is buried in a private marble tomb in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, lying at rest beside his wife Norma Shearer Arrouge (Thalberg's crypt was engraved, "My Sweetheart Forever" by Shearer).

Filmography

• Marie Antoinette (1938)
• The Good Earth (1937)
• Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
• A Day at the Races (1937)
• Maytime (1937)
• Camille (1936)
• Romeo and Juliet (1936)
• Riffraff (1936)
• A Night at the Opera (film) (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• China Seas (1935)
• No More Ladies (1935)
• Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
• What Every Woman Knows (1934)
• The Merry Widow (1934)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
• Riptide (1934)
• Veuve joyeuse, La (1934)
• Eskimo/Mala the Magnificent (1933)
• Bombshell (1933)
• Tugboat Annie (1933)
• Strange Interlude (1932)
• Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
• Red Dust (1932)
• Smilin' Through (1932)
• Red-Headed Woman (1932)
• As You Desire Me (1932)
• Letty Lynton (1932)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
• Freaks (1932)
• Mata Hari (1931)
• Private Lives (1931)
• Possessed (1931)
• The Champ (1931/I)
• The Guardsman (1931)
• The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
• Menschen hinter Gittern (1931)
• A Free Soul (1931)
• Just a Gigolo (1931)
• The Secret Six (1931)
• Trader Horn (1931)
• Inspiration (1931)
• A Lady's Morals (1930)
• Way for a Sailor (1930)
• Billy the Kid (1930)
• Let Us Be Gay (1930)
• The Unholy Three (1930)
• The Big House (1930)
• The Rogue Song (1930)
• The Divorcee (1930)
• Redemption (1930)
• Anna Christie (1930)
• The Kiss (1929)
• His Glorious Night (1929)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
• Where East Is East (1929)
• Voice of the City (1929)
• The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
• The Broadway Melody (1929)
• West of Zanzibar (1928)
• Show People (1928)
• White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
• The Crowd (1928)
• London After Midnight (1927)
• The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
• Twelve Miles Out (1927)
• Flesh and the Devil (1926)
• Valencia (1926)
• The Temptress (1926)
• The Road to Mandalay (1926)
• Brown of Harvard (1926)
• Boheme, La (1926)
• Torrent (1926)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• The Tower of Lies (1925)
• The Merry Widow (1925)
• The Unholy Three (1925)
• Greed (1924)
• He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
• His Hour (1924)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• Merry-Go-Round (1923)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• The Trap (1922)
• The Dangerous Little Demon (1922 )
• Reputation (1921)

Marie Antoinette was a 1938 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ... The Good Earth (1937) is a movie based on the 1931 book of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck about Chinese peasants who try to survive a locust invasion. ... Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 musical film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Roy Del Ruth. ... Code book scene A Day at the Races A Day at the Races (1937) is the seventh movie starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones and Maureen OSullivan. ... Maytime is a 1937 musical romance, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. ... Camille is an American 1936 drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion. ... The 1936 movie adaptation of Shakespeares play, Romeo and Juliet was directed by George Cukor, with a screenplay written by Talbot Jennings. ... As an epithet, Riff Raff, belongs to a category of insults focusing on behavioral characteristics (such as mannerisms, lifestyle) rather than overt racial characteristics (as with nigger, yid). ... A Night at the Opera is a 1935 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers. ... Mutiny on the Bounty, based on the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff, is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone. ... China Seas is a 1935 movie starring Clark Gable as a brave sea captain, Jean Harlow as an onboard floozy, and Wallace Beery as a suspicious-looking character. ... No More Ladies is a 1935 film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Franchot Tone, which is based on a play by A.E. Thomas. ... For the ballet, see The Merry Widow (ballet). ... The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 film detailing the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer) and Robert Browning (Fredric March), despite the opposition of her father, played by Charles Laughton. ... Eskimo (also known as Mala the Magnificent) (1933) is one of the most prominent movies filmed in Alaska. ... Tugboat Annie is a 1933 movie starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat. ... Strange Interlude is an experimental play by the great American playwright Eugene ONeill. ... Red Dust is an American 1932 film directed by Victor Fleming. ... Smilin Through is a 1932 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ... Red-Headed Woman is a 1932 film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on a novel by Katherine Brush, and with a screenplay by Anita Loos. ... As You Desire Me is a 1932 film adaptation of the play by Luigi Pirandello made by MGM. It was produced and directed by George Fitzmaurice with Irving Thalberg as co-producer. ... Letty Lynton is a 1932 MGM film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Nils Asther. ... // Grand hotel is a term for a large and luxurious hotel, especially one built in a traditional architectural style. ... Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) is an action adventure film starring Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith & Maureen OSullivan. ... For other uses, see Freak (disambiguation). ... Private Lives is a play written by Noel Coward in 1930. ... Possessed is a 1931 MGM film produced and directed by Clarence Brown, and co-produced by Harry Rapf and Irving Thalberg. ... For the 1979 remake, see The Champ (1979 film). ... The Guardsman is a 1931 movie based on the play Testör by Ferenc Molnar and the play Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson. ... The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 film which tells the story of a wrongly-imprisoned woman who turns to theft and prostitution in order to support her son. ... A Free Soul is a 1931 film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughters ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with, a mobster whom her father had gotten an acquittal on a murder charge. ... William Haines in Just A Gigolo (1931) Just a Gigolo is a 1931 movie starring William Haines and Ray Milland, and produced by Irving Thalberg. ... The Secret Six (1931) is an early gangster movie, starring Wallace Beery as Slaughterhouse Scorpio and featuring Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown (billed as John Mack Brown), Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and Ralph Bellamy. ... Trader Horn (1931) was the first film shot on location in Africa. ... A Ladys Morals is a 1930 film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind. ... Way for a Sailor is a 1930 film starring John Gilbert. ... Billy the Kid (1930) is a film about the relationship between frontier outlaw Billy the Kid (Johnny Mack Brown) and Pat Garrett (Wallace Beery), the man who later killed him. ... The Unholy Three is a melodrama silent film involving a crime spree. ... Look up big house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Rogue Song is a 1930 musical romance film which tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister. ... The Divorcee is a 1930 film that was written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, from the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. ... Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene ONeill. ... The original Hallelujah film is about African-American sharecroppers. ... The Hollywood Revue of 1929: One of the earliest ventures into the new talkie format of motion pictures, this film, directed by Charles Riesner for MGM, brought together some top acts in a two-hour vaudeville show hosted by Jack Benny. ... The Last of Mrs. ... Voice of the City is a 1929 film by Willard Mack modeled on a stage play. ... The Trial of Mary Dugan is a play written by Bayard Veiller. ... The Broadway Melody (1929) was the first Sound film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. ... West of Zanzibar is a 1928 film directed by Tod Browning about the vengefulness of a cuckolded magician (Lon Chaney) paralyzed in a brawl with his rival (Lionel Barrymore). ... Show People is 1928 silent comedy film produced at MGM Studios, and directed by King Vidor. ... SPOILER WARNING Laugh, Clown, Laugh copyright 1928 MGM Directed by Herbert Brenon Tito (Lon Chaney), a traveling circus clown finds an abandoned child (uncredited). ... The Crowd an influential and acclaimed American film released in 1928, and nominated for the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production that same year. ... London After Midnight can refer to: London After Midnight (film) - A lost silent horror film. ... The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg a. ... Twelve Miles Out is a 1927 film starring John Gilbert and Joan Crawford. ... Flesh and the Devil is a classic 1926 movie starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. ... The Temptress is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo. ... Eternity/ The Road To Mandalay is the fifth single from Robbie Williams 2000 Sing When Youre Winning album, released in July 2001. ... Brown of Harvard is the title of both a film from 1918 and from 1926. ... The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film which tells the story of an idle rich boy who is shipped off to France to fight World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. ... For the ballet, see The Merry Widow (ballet). ... The Unholy Three is a melodrama silent film involving a crime spree. ... Greed is a 1924 dramatic silent movie starring Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt and Chester Conklin. ... He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 film starring Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer. ... The 1923 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda, and directed by Wallace Worsley, is one of the more famous adaptations of Victor Hugos novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ... Merry-Go-Round is a 1923 movie by Erich von Stroheim, starring Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin. ... For other films with this title see The Trap (1959 film) and The Trap (1966 film) The Trap (1922) is a silent film, released by Universal Pictures. ...

References

Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 (some sources indicate 1900) – June 12, 1983) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-American actress. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Biographies

• Thalberg: Life and Legend by Bob Thomas (1969)
• Thalberg: The Last Tycoon and the World of M-G-M by Roland Flamini (1994)
• Mayer and Thalberg: The Make-believe Saints by Samuel Marx (1975)
• Irving Thalberg's MGM by Mark Vieira (2008)

Samuel Marx (January 26, 1902 New York City - March 2, 1992 Los Angeles, California) was an American film producer, screenwriter and book author. ...

External links

• Irving Thalberg at the Internet Movie Database
• Cinemagraphe Review of the Roland Flamini biography of Thalberg: The Last Tycoon and the World of MGM