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Hunt Stromberg Jr. Hunt Stromberg Jr. was born on 16 May 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Vampira Show (1954), The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953) and Sex in America. He was married to Marilyn Karmany Elwell. He died on 24 November 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer, Writer
- May 16, 1923
- Hunt Stromberg Jr.
- November 24, 1986
In 1919, he relocated to Los Angeles to serve as executive assistant to producer Thomas H. Ince. In 1922, he decided to strike out on his own and found great success in producing a series of two-reelers starring Bull Montana for the first iteration of Hunt Stromberg Productions.
- Income, Output, and The Balance of Studio Power
- Studio Operations and Market Strategies
- The Wartime Surge in Independent Production
- Studio-Based Units and In-House Independents
- Working The First-Run Market
The most significant developments in the Hollywood studio system during World War IIwere increased studio revenues (and profits) and decreased output. While the lower output of films was related to various wartime factors—the manpower shortage, for example, and restricted supplies of film stock—these cutbacks resulted more than anything else from s...
The Major-Minors and the Minor Studios
The war era saw a growing rift between the Big Five and the other studios in terms of production and management operations as well as overall market strategies. The major studios, with their superior resources, were able to respond to the wartime market more aggressively than the lesser studio powers. While the Little Three and the Poverty Row studios certainly benefited from the war boom, their overall production and sales strategies, for the most part, remained quite consistent during the w...
The Major Studios
The integrated majors saw radical changes during the war, owing primarily to the volatile market conditions and the increased importance and clout of producers and top talent. Perhaps the single most important development was the sharp acceleration of unit production and hyphenate status for above-the-line contract talent. While these changes had considerable impact on production management, studio management—executive control of the company at large—changed very little. In fact, the war boom...
In February 1942, Variety ran a prescient analysis of the unit phenomenon as it had developed over the preceding months. In 1941, noted Variety, "company after company has swung away from the system of front-office assignment of producers, which they have used for years, toward the unit idea." Now the war economy "is expected to still further spur ...
The studios had little choice but to accommodate filmmakers who expressed independent inclinations, given the wartime demand for top talent and for a steady flow of highend product. Thus, by early 1944, according to Variety, "Hollywood's most important independent producers [were] setting virtually their own terms with distributors."43 At that time...
With the financial stakes and profit potential going up with each wartime release, and with the 1940 consent decree spurring a move to unit sales, the studios steadily adjusted both their market strategies and their marketing operations. Variety reported in September 1942 that the majors were increasing their "exploitation" budgets by 25 percent th...
April 30, 1954. (1954-04-30) –. April 2, 1955. (1955-04-02) The Vampira Show was an American television show that broadcast vintage horror films presented by horror host Vampira. The series aired on the Los Angeles ABC television affiliate KABC-TV [1][2] from April 30, 1954, through April 2, 1955. The weekly series was produced and created by ...
Hunt Stromberg (July 12, 1894 – August 23, 1968) was a film producer during Hollywood's Golden Age. [1] In a prolific 30-year career beginning in 1921, Stromberg produced, wrote, and directed some of Hollywood's most profitable and enduring films, including The Thin Man series, the Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald operettas, The Women , and The Great Ziegfeld , which won the Academy Award ...
Oct 11, 2023 · Airing live in the pre-videotape 1950s, The Vampira Show was not seen outside the Los Angeles area, and, consequently, there is no surviving footage. However, horror fans finally glimpsed what they had only dreamed about for decades when a promotional film for KABC-TV featuring the show's opening segment was unearthed in the late 1990s.
Hunt Stromberg (July 12, 1894 – August 23, 1968) was a film producer during Hollywood's Golden Age. In a prolific 30-year career beginning in 1921, Stromberg produced, wrote, and directed some of Hollywood's most profitable and enduring films, including The Thin Man series, the Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald operettas, The Women, and The Great Ziegfeld, which won the Academy Award for Best ...
