Jerry Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows.
Born Jerome Irving Wald in Brooklyn, New York, he had a brother and sons who were active in the business.
Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1940s and 1960s including On Your Toes (in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley), Sons and Lovers, The Sound and the Fury, The Glass Menager...
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Jerry Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American producer and screenwriter for motion pictures and radio shows.
Born Jerome Irving Wald in Brooklyn, New York, he had a brother and sons who were active in the business.
Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1940s and 1960s including On Your Toes (in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley), Sons and Lovers, The Sound and the Fury, The Glass Menagerie, Perfect Strangers, In Love and War, Peyton Place, Return to Peyton Place, Wild in the Country, An Affair to Remember, Two Tickets to Broadway, The Blue Veil, From Here to Eternity, Always Leave Them Laughing, Key Largo, Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda, Destination Tokyo, Across the Pacific, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Navy Blues, The Road to Frisco, The Roaring Twenties, and Stars Over Broadway. He also produced the Academy Awards telecast twice.
He was nominated for Academy Awards for Mildred Pierce, Johnny Belinda, Peyton Place, and Sons...
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