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Arthur Hornblow Jr.. Producer: Witness for the Prosecution. College-educated Arthur Hornblow Jr. was the son of a successful novelist, turned playwright. After graduating from New York Law School, he worked for some time as a practising lawyer and was posted in counter-intelligence during the First World War.
- Producer, Additional Crew
- March 15, 1893
- Arthur Hornblow Jr.
- July 17, 1976
- Movie Producer 1927
- Paramount 1933
- MGM 1942
- Personal
Between 1927 and 1933 Hornblow played an important background role in the Goldwyn studio and he used the time wisely, learning about his new business, but Goldwyn refused his repeated requests to be given public credit on screen for his work and Hornblow finally resigned in frustration.
As a top producer Hornblow showed an eye for new talent. In 1941 he advised the young actress, Constance Keane, to change her name. He suggested "Lake" for the blueness of her eyes, and "Veronica" because of her beauty. Up to this time, her movie billing had been under her natural name of Constance Keane but with her next movie, as William Holden's...
As MGM's power and reputation declined after the war, their parent company, Loews, ousted long time head, L.B.Mayer, and replaced him with Dore Schary, whose pictures tended to be darker and more socially relevant than Mayer's. Hornblow was able to adapt easily to Schary's style and produced John Huston's ground-breaking film noir 'The Asphalt Jung...
After the poorly received 'The War Lover' in 1962, Hornblow retired from the movie industry and spent much of his retirement co-authoring children's books with his wife Leonora. They wrote a series of books about unusual animal behaviour with titles such as "Birds Do the Strangest Things" in 1965, through to "Prehistoric Monsters Did the Strangest ...
Dec 15, 1993 · In the midst of all this, she divorced her first husband, movie producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., and married John D. Hertz Jr., heir to the rental car fortune. (She would marry and divorce twice more ...
Arthur Hornblow, Jr. (1893—1976) Quick Reference (1893–1976). Stage and film producer. A notable presenter on both Broadway and in Hollywood, he produced ten ...
Arthur Hornblow Jr. was born in New York City in 1893. His father was a playwright and later a theatre critic. His father was a playwright and later a theatre critic. Hornblow attended Dartmouth College and received a law degree from New York Law School before serving as a counter-intelligence officer during World War I.
Arthur Hornblow has 125 books on Goodreads with 743 ratings. Arthur Hornblow’s most popular book is The Mask.
Hornblow was the son of Arthur Hornblow Sr. (1865–1942), a writer who edited Theatre Magazine in New York City. Hornblow graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School , New York City, in 1911, before studying at Dartmouth College and New York Law School , [1] and was a member of the fraternity Theta Delta Chi .
