Jack Cummings

制片人, 编剧, 导演

1905年2月16日 — 1989年4月28日 (84 years)
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John "Jack" Cummings (February 16, 1905 – April 28, 1989) was an American film producer and director. He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern.

Cummings spent most of his career at his uncle Louis B. Mayer's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he began work in the 1920s. Mayer started his nephew out as an office boy and expected him to work his way up through the ranks.

Cummings became a staff producer at MGM in 1934, where he worked in the B-feature unit for two years. In 1936, he produced the extravagant Cole Porter musical Born to Dance, which established his reputation as a respected producer. Cummings remained at MGM even after his uncle was fired from the studio in 1951, working with talent such as the Marx Brothers, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and Fred Astaire and producing some of the era's best-known musicals, including 1953's Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He left MGM to become an independent producer affiliated with Twentieth Century-Fox and produced the 1959 remake of The Blue Angel and the 1960 movie version of the Abe Burrows-Cole Porter Broadway musical Can-Can. In 1964, he returned to MGM one last time to produce the Elvis Presley musical Viva Las Vegas. Other credits included Easy to Wed, It Happened in Brooklyn, Three Little Words, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Interrupted Melody, and The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Jack Cummings was the son of Ida Mayer Cummings, sister of Louis B Mayer. He had two sisters, Ruth (married to film director Roy Rowland) and Mitzi (married to film producer Sol Baer Fielding), as well as a younger half brother Leonard 'Sonny' Cummings. Mr. Cummings was survived by his four daughters, Julie Cummings Siff, of Manhattan, Kathy Cummings St. Aubin, of Los Angeles, Linda Kern Cummings, of Danville, Ky., and Carla Luisa Cummings, of Los Angeles.

Plex 上的电影与电视节目

  • 我最后一次看见巴黎
    我最后一次看见巴黎1954
  • 红袖倾城
    红袖倾城1947

知名作品

  • 七新娘巧配七兄弟
    七新娘巧配七兄弟1954
  • 龙凤春光
    龙凤春光1964
  • 刁蛮公主
    刁蛮公主1953
  • 走向西部
    走向西部1940
  • 我最后一次看见巴黎
    我最后一次看见巴黎1954
  • 秋月茶室
    秋月茶室1956
  • Tarzan Escapes
    Tarzan Escapes1936
  • The Stratton Story
    The Stratton Story1949
  • 百老汇旋律1940
    百老汇旋律19401940
  • 仙侣霓裳
    仙侣霓裳1950
  • 为舞而生
    为舞而生1936
  • 出水芙蓉
    出水芙蓉1944
  • 洛水神仙
    洛水神仙1949
  • Broadway Melody of 1938
    Broadway Melody of 19381937
  • Many Rivers to Cross
    Many Rivers to Cross1955
  • 康康舞
    康康舞1960
  • 西厢情断
    西厢情断1955
  • It Happened in Brooklyn
    It Happened in Brooklyn1947
  • Two Weeks with Love
    Two Weeks with Love1950
  • 碧水良缘
    碧水良缘1946