- Buddy Adler
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Maurice Adler Born E. Maurice Adler
June 22, 1909
New York City, New York, U.S.Died July 12, 1960 (aged 51)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.Years active 1939-59 Spouse Anita Louise (1940-60) E. Maurice "Buddy" Adler (June 22, 1909 – July 12, 1960) was an American film producer and a former production head for 20th Century Fox studios.
Born in New York City, New York, he married in 1940 actress Anita Louise Fremault (1915–1970) with whom he had two children.
In 1954, his production of From Here to Eternity won the Academy Award for Best Picture and in 1956, his Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing was nominated for best picture. Adler also produced the 1956 film Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe.
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Awards
He was the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1957. The following year he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
Death
Buddy Adler died of lung cancer, aged 51, in Los Angeles and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His widow died ten years later.
Selected filmography
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
- South Pacific (1958)
- A Hatful of Rain (1957)
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Anastasia (1956)
- Bus Stop (1956)
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
- The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
- The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
- The Left Hand of God (1955)
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
- House of Bamboo (1955)
- Soldier of Fortune (1955)
- Violent Saturday (1955)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)
- Saturday's Hero (1951)
- A Woman of Distinction (1950)
- Tell It to the Judge (1949)
- The Dark Past (1948)
- Quicker'n a Wink (1940)
External links
Academy Awards Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Darryl F. Zanuck (1938) · Hal B. Wallis (1939) · David O. Selznick (1940) · Walt Disney (1942) · Sidney Franklin (1943) · Hal B. Wallis (1944) · Darryl F. Zanuck (1945) · Samuel Goldwyn (1947) · Jerry Wald (1949) · Darryl F. Zanuck (1951) · Arthur Freed (1952) · Cecil B. DeMille (1953) · George Stevens (1954) · Buddy Adler (1957) · Jack Warner (1959) · Stanley Kramer (1962) · Sam Spiegel (1964) · William Wyler (1966) · Robert Wise (1967) · Alfred Hitchcock (1968) · Ingmar Bergman (1971) · Lawrence Weingarten (1974) · Mervyn LeRoy (1976) · Pandro S. Berman (1977) · Walter Mirisch (1978) · Ray Stark (1980) · Albert R. Broccoli (1982) · Steven Spielberg (1986) · Billy Wilder (1988) · David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck (1991) · George Lucas (1992) · Clint Eastwood (1995) · Saul Zaentz (1997) · Norman Jewison (1999) · Warren Beatty (2000) · Dino De Laurentiis (2001) · John Calley (2009) · Francis Ford Coppola (2010)
Categories:- 1909 births
- 1960 deaths
- American film producers
- American businesspeople
- People from New York City
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
- Deaths from lung cancer
- Cancer deaths in California
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