Word: lubitsch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week before "the age of taxes, accountants, business managers and tax shelters [when] the make-it-and-spend-it philosophy ruled the town." He discovered the "It" girl, Clara Bow, and the German character lead Emil Jannings; he promoted the careers of people as diverse as Director Ernst Lubitsch and the Marx brothers. Yet, by his mid-40s he had flamed out. His son began in movies by collaborating with an alcoholic writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald (whom he later commemorated in the novel The Disenchanted) and wrote several film classics, including On the Waterfront and A Face...