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Wallis also turned out more light-hearted films starring Martin, Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Wallis received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding contributions to the industry in 1943. Starmaker: The Autobiography of Hal B. Wallis, written with Charles Higham, was published in ...
This work is alluded to in other celebrity memoirs and film reference books as being a great autobiography about Hollywood. It's not. There are about a half dozen interesting inside stories on famous movie stars that Wallis worked with, but otherwise the extremely short book (185 pages before addendums) is simply the author skipping through his production history without going into any depth.
Hal Wallis, Warner’s head of production always saw Humphrey Bogart in the lead, even though the more established George Raft was lobbying for the role after first turning it down. (Raft’s bad career choices were largely responsible for Bogart becoming a star at age 40 — he'd already turned down the leads in both “ High Sierra ” and “ The Maltese Falcon .”)
Motion Picture Producer, Studio Executive. Among the most influential and successful producers in Hollywood history, he is responsible for such classic pictures as The Maltese Falcon (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1941) and Casablanca (1942) in addition to many more. Born Aaron Blum Wolowicz to parents of Jewish...
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Hal B. Wallis was an American producer active in film production from around 1928 to 1975. From 1933 to 1944, Wallis was associate executive in charge of production at Warner Bros.
Oct 17, 2014 · Hal Wallis (1898-1986) might not be as well known as David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn, but the films he produced—Casablanca, Jezebel, Now, Voyager, The Life of Emile Zola, Becket, True Grit, and many other classics (as well as scores of Elvis movies)—have certainly endured.
