Word: briskin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Betty Hutton, 27, galvanic cinecomedienne, and Theodore Briskin, 30, Chicago cameramaker: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Barbara. Weight...
...Films Inc. seemed most likely to become a big fish. It had three of Hollywood's top directors: Frank Capra (Mr.Deeds Goes to Town), a three-time Oscar winner; William Wyler, whose Best Years of Our Lives won nine Oscars last year; George Stevens (Penny Serenade) and Samuel Briskin, who was once Columbia Pictures production boss...
While Frank Capra was still wearing Signal Corps eagles, he began to discuss independent production with Samuel J. Briskin, onetime vice president of RKO and Columbia. Early in 1945, Liberty Films was incorporated. Briskin took on the job of executive management, leaving Capra free to do all the details of picture making-from story selection to final film editing. With the machinery set up, it seemed a pity not to ask in a couple of other topnotch directors. George Stevens (Penny Serenade, The More the Merrier) is already at work. William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), under contract to make...
Born. To Betty Hutton, 25, raucous, rampageous cinemactress; and Theodore Briskin, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Lindsey Diane. Weight...
...Monday luncheon at plush Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...