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   After graduating from high school he worked as a store clerk during the day and to gain some job skills took a night class in typing. He then found work as a secretary with Universal Studios' New York office, and was later made studio manager for its Los Angeles facility. There, he oversaw production of a hundred films during his three years ...

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   Sep 9, 2024 · He graduated from high school and worked for two years in the New York offices of Universal Pictures before going to Hollywood as the secretary to the company president, Carl Laemmle. At age 21 Thalberg became Universal’s studio manager.

3. www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org › entries › irvingIrving Thalberg - Immigrant Entrepreneurship

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   Jun 8, 2011 · In mid-1919, Thalberg accompanied Laemmle to Universal City, the studio’s lavish four-year-old Los Angeles production center. The vast Universal City, opened in 1915, provided an excellent training ground for the mass production of film for the ambitious and hard-working Thalberg.

4. ew.com › article › 1994/03/25Thalberg: The Last Tycoon and the World of MGM

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   Mar 25, 1994 · At 20 he was head of production at Universal Studios, where he soon fired the director Erich von Stroheim for cost overruns, putting an end to the era of the untrammeled artist-director in...

5. www.tcm.com › tcmdb › personIrving G. Thalberg - Turner Classic Movies

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   Sickly as a child, Thalberg was nonetheless a bright youngster bound for early success. In fact, he began his film career straight out of high school in 1918, when he worked as a secretary for Universal Studios founder, Carl Laemmle, in his New York office.

6. slate.com › articles › artsMGM founders Irving Thalberg and Louis B. Mayer: You Must ...

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   Sep 18, 2015 · At age 23, he had already been running production at Universal Studios for years. He was bored there, and frustrated that his bosses were always trying to cut back.

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   How old was Thalberg when he started working at Universal Studios?

   • Thalberg was known around town as a boy genius. At age 23, he had already been running production at Universal Studios for years. He was bored there, and frustrated that his bosses were always trying to cut back. That wasn’t Mayer’s style—Mayer believed in spending money to make money.

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   Where did Thalberg get his start?

   • Thalberg had his start with Carl Laemmle's Universal Studios, where he took a heavy-handed approach to guiding hits like "Foolish Wives" (192... What Every Woman Knows (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'm An Individual Collectivist! Actor.

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   How much money did Thalberg make a week?

   • Among Thalberg's duties were transcribing and editing notes that Laemmle had written during screenings of his films. He earned $25 weekly, becoming adept at making insightful observations, which impressed Laemmle. Laemmle took Thalberg to see his Los Angeles production facility, where he spent a month watching how movie production worked.

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   Who was Irving Thalberg?

   • Irving Thalberg, American film executive called the ‘boy wonder of Hollywood’ who, as the production manager of MGM, was largely responsible for the studio’s prestigious reputation. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, given for excellence in production.

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   Did Thalberg use two stars in a movie?

   • Thalberg began using two stars in a film, rather than one, as had been the tradition at all the studios, such as pairing Greta Garbo with John Gilbert, Clark Gable with Jean Harlow, and William Powell with Myrna Loy.

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   How did Mayer & Thalberg differ?

   • Although their personalities were in many ways opposite, Mayer being more outspoken and nearly twice the younger man's age, Thalberg was hired as vice president in charge of production at Louis B. Mayer Productions. Years later, Mayer's daughter Irene Mayer Selznick recalled that "it was hard to believe anyone that boyish could be so important."

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8. www.german-way.com › notable-people › featured-biosCarl Laemmle and Universal Pictures • The German Way & More

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   In the fall of 1919, Laemmle brought Thalberg, not yet 21 years old, along on his trip to “the Coast” without telling his young secretary what he had in mind. Thalberg always looked younger than he actually was, and he came to resent his later “Boy Wonder” nickname.