Harold Brent Wallis
Harold Brent Wallis, born Aaron Blum Wolowicz (October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986)He is best remembered for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with the Academy Awards' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, twice winning awards for Best Picture. In 1975, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 1980, he published his autobiography, Starmaker, co-written with Charles Higham. Wallis was married twice, and had one child. Wallis died in 1986 of complications of diabetes in Rancho Mirage, California, at the age of 88. He is interred at Forest Lawn-Glendale, inside the Great Mausoleum.
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