Irving Thalberg

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  • Birth Name: Irving Grant Thalberg
  • Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 05/30/1899, Gemini
  • Date of Death: 09/14/1936
  • Profession: Producer
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Irving Thalberg Fast Facts:
  • Suffered from a rheumatic heart condition his whole life and was not expected to live past the age of 30.
  • Learned speed typing and shorthand after high school, which landed him a secretarial job at the New York offices of Universal Film Manufacturing Co. in 1918. Eventually left to become vice president and head of production for Louis B. Mayer.
  • Dubbed "the Boy Wonder," he set high standards and developed many prestigious films while at MGM.
  • Helped revive the career of the Marx Brothers.
  • Often credited with instituting the sneak preview for measuring audience response and a film's box-office potential.
  • One of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
  • Refusing to accept any on-screen credit for work, his name appeared posthumously on one film, The Good Earth in 1937.
  • Was the basis for the lead character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's final novel, The Last Tycoon.
  • Following his death due to pneumonia, AMPAS instituted the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, presented periodically to a producer whose work displays a high level of motion picture production excellence.
  • Irving Thalberg Relationships:
  • Norma Shearer - Wife
  • Irving Thalberg Jr. - Son
  • Henrietta Thalberg - Mother
  • William Thalberg - Father
  • Katherine Thalberg - Daughter
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