Hunt Stromberg
Hunt Stromberg was a film producer during Hollywoods Golden Age. In a prolific 30year career beginning in 1921, Stromberg produced, wrote, and directed some of Hollywoods most profitable and enduring films, including The Thin Man series, the Nelson EddyJeanette MacDonald operettas, The Women, and The Great Ziegfeld, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1936.
Hunt Stromberg was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1894. Leaving a career as a newspaper reporter and sports writer for the St. Louis Times, he followed an advertising friend into the motion picture industry prior to World War I, becoming publicity director for the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in New York.
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