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At the end of World War II, he formed Enterprise Productions with actor John Garfield and former Warner Bros. publicity chief Charles Einfeld. [5] He died on March 25, 1973, at the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He was survived by his wife, Hilda.
Some of David Loew's best remembered films were produced at the General Service Studio, including Jean Renoir's The Southerner (1945) and the Marx Brothers' A Night in Casablanca (1946). Unfortunately during the late 1940s, many SIMPP members struggled through the difficult boom and bust of the postwar period.
Enterprise Productions, Inc. (otherwise known as The Enterprise Studios) was an independent production company co-founded by actor John Garfield alongside producers David L. Loew and Charles Einfeld in 1946, right after Garfield's contract with Warner Bros. had expired.
In 1922, David Loew was elected to the board of Loew's, but resigned as vice president in 1935 to concentrate on his independent production career. Loew's producing credits include THE MOON AND SIXPENCE (1942) and NIGHT IN CASABLANCA (1946).
Despite starring in a string of successes at Warner Brothers (where he was the studio's top money-earner in 1936), and rising halfway to the summit of Hollywood's box office top ten, comedian Joe E. Brown elected in 1937 to sign with independent producer David L. Loew.
- Harry Beaumont, Sandy Roth
- Joe E. Brown
Another press release noted that this was the sixth film that Joe E. Brown made for David L. Loew. A pre-release news item in Hollywood Reporter called it their eighth picture together and also noted that it was to be their last.
Mar 27, 1973 · LOS ANGELES, March 26—David L. Loew, a retired film producer, died yesterday in University of California at Los Angeles Memorial Hospital. He was 75 years old. Mr. Loew was a son of Marcus...
