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Joseph Herman Pasternak (born József Paszternák; September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin , Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell , as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther Williams ...
Joe Pasternak was a Hungarian-born Hollywood producer and director who made many musicals, operettas and comedies, featuring stars like Deanna Durbin, Marlene Dietrich and Esther Williams. He also produced the 1966 Academy Awards and was related to the author of Doctor Zhivago.
- September 19, 1901
- September 13, 1991
Joe Pasternak. Producer: Peter. The son of an out-of-work bookkeeper, Pasternak arrived in the U.S. from Hungary in 1921. After working in a belt factory in Philadelphia, he moved to New York where he plucked chickens and worked in a cafeteria.
Oct 15, 2023 · How a Jewish producer — haunted by the Holocaust — gave us Judy Garland’s MGM swan song. Joe Pasternak placed a premium on happy endings. He knew life didn’t always work out that way ...
Died Sept. 13, 1991 of Parkinson's disease in Beverly Hills, Calif. J oe Pasternak was a masterful producer of film musicals whose 105 pictures reflected his own Old Country taste and optimism. In a career that spanned 40 years, Pasternak developed such musical prodigies as Deanna Durbin, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson and Gloria DeHaven.
Apr 14, 2020 · Joe Pasternak, a Hungarian émigré to the U.S., had spent years producing films for Universal in Europe, then returned in 1936 as the Continent became increasingly dangerous for a Jewish man. He immediately made his name stateside by starring Durbin in Three Smart Girls (1936), a huge hit that put the perpetually insolvent Universal back on its feet.
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Joseph Herman Pasternak was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther Williams' films. He produced Judy Garland's final MGM film, Summer Stock, which was ...
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