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 and
Lovers; he won the Oscar for
From Here to
Eternity.
He died,
aged 50, at home in Beverly Hills, California
from a heart
attack.
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