Search results
Jerry Wald, was a close friend of Joan Crawford in the forties, offering her many parts including the title role in Mildred Pierce, which he produced. He convinced director Michael Curtiz that she would succeed in the role, which brought her the Oscar for Best Actress in 1946.
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.
- January 1, 1
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
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.
- January 1, 1
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
- January 1, 1
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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.
- September 16, 1911
- July 13, 1962
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.
HOLLYWOOD, July 13-- Jerry Wald, the motion picture producer, died tonight at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 49 years old. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
People also ask
Who was Jerry Wald?
Who is Gerry Waldron?
What movies did Jerry Wald produce?
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.
