David Lean also admitted he was deeply indebted to Ingram, and MGM studio chief Dore Schary once listed the top creative people in Hollywood as D. W. Griffith, Ingram, Cecil B. DeMille, and Erich von Stroheim ( in declining order of importance ).

Isadore " Dore " Schary ( August 31, 1905, Newark, New Jersey-July 7, 1980, New York City ) was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright who became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and eventually president of the studio.

When Schary went to MGM, he purchased the rights to the script from RKO, over the objections of Louis B. Mayer, who believed that the public was tired of war films.

Otto Preminger was one of several producers, including Hal Wallis, Louis B. Mayer, Dore Schary, Anatole Litvak, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Harry Cohn, who had tried to secure the film rights without success.

* 1980 – Dore Schary, American writer and producer ( b. 1905 )

Producer Dore Schary, in association with Adrian Scott, has pulled no punches.

* Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Edgar ; Best Motion Picture, John Paxton ( screenwriter ), Richard Brooks ( author ), Dore Schary ( producer ), Adrian Scott ( associate producer ) and Edward Dmytryk ( director ); 1948.

After his death, Dore Schary, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, said, " There can be no question that he was the best and most protean actor of our screen.

Battleground was originally an RKO property, which was called " Prelude to Love " to hide its subject matter, but was shelved when production head Dore Schary resigned, despite $ 100, 000 having been put into the property to that point.

Shooting took 20 days less than was scheduled, due in part to innovations instituted by Schary such as processing film as it was shot, and dubbing and cutting it so that scenes could be previewed within two days of being shot.

The film is a romantic comedy directed by Charles Vidor, produced by Dore Schary from a screenplay by John Dighton based on the play by Ferenc Molnár.

The film's producer, Dore Schary, wanted Spencer Tracy for the leading role.

Concerned that Tracy might not accept, Schary ordered the script changed so that Macreedy was a one-armed man.

Schary made clear that he was willing to sue the actor if he quit the film.

MGM produced a short film Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light, narrated by Dore Schary and showing the European locations used for the filming, to promote Lust for Life.

Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 American biographical film made by Dore Schary Productions and Warner Bros., and based on the long-running Broadway play with the same name.

The play and the film were both written and produced by Schary and directed by Vincent J. Donehue.

Dore Schary was famous for his message pictures at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

In 1960, motion-picture producer Dore Schary and director Vincent J. Donehue made the film Sunrise at Campobello, based on Schary's Tony Award winning Broadway play of the same name.

Schary had his first success as a writer when a play he wrote, Too Many Heroes, ran on Broadway for 16 performances in the fall of 1937.

In 1951, Mayer was ousted and Schary installed as president, serving until 1956.

MGM swimming star Esther Williams would later state in her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid that Schary was rude, cruel, and as imperious as Mayer had been.

* 1958: Sunrise at Campobello by Dore Schary

* In the 1948 RKO film, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer ( which he produced ), Schary can be seen driving Cary Grant to the airport at the end of the film.

Dore Schary, the uncredited executive producer who apparently got the project going at RKO before his 1948 move to MGM, is credited with giving the film a real time narrative structure, three years before the device was used in High Noon.

He was awarded the 1958 Tony Award for best play production ( together with his wife and partners, Theresa Helburn and Dore Schary ) for Sunrise at Campobello.

She found it appropriate that Schary was fired on Thanksgiving Day, since he was a " turkey ".

At the end of March 1959, Porter took over as chief engineer at RCA's Nashville studio, in the space now known as " Studio B ".

In 1931, Universal chief Carl Laemmle, Jr. offered Whale his choice of any property the studio owned.

As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.

The band's chief live technician, Peter Clements, or " Plank ", has worked with the band since before The Bends, overseeing the setup of their instruments for both studio recordings and live performances.

After she was named the winner, studio chief Harry Cohn sent someone to " drag her off " the train, which had not yet left the station, and take her to the ceremony.

They began an affair during the production, resulting in an ultimatum from studio chief Louis B. Mayer to Gable that the affair end.

After she was named the winner, studio chief Harry Cohn sent someone to " drag her off " the train, which had not yet left the station, and take her to the ceremony.

In 1974, the former studio chief suffered a stroke that left him blind and enfeebled.

In late July, Bow entered studio chief B. P. Schulberg's office wearing a simple high-school uniform in which she " had won several gold medals on the cinder track ".

Beckerman liked it and introduced Richter and Canton to studio chief David Begelmen.

Filming was already under way as a black-and-white feature when studio chief Harry Cohn, impressed by the scenes already filmed, decided to start the project all over as a Technicolor production.

Diller left Paramount in 1984, and, as his protégé, Eisner expected to assume Diller's position as studio chief.

At first, Thalberg and studio chief Louis B. Mayer got along famously well.

He would run Columbia for the next 34 years, the second-longest tenure of any studio chief, behind only Warner Bros .' Jack Warner.

According to Bob Thomas's book King Cohn, studio chief Harry Cohn always placed a high priority on serials.

Bette Davis initially turned down the script, but Warner Bros. studio production chief Hal B. Wallis convinced her she could make something special out of the character, who had been inspired by one of Davis ' idols, actress Jeanne Eagels.

With a career of over 60 years at the film studio Suomi-Filmi, Orko rose to be head of production and chief director in the 1930s.

The studios now form the centre of ITV plc's studio operations and are the chief production centre.

Can constructed their music largely through collective spontaneous composition –– which the band differentiated from improvisation in the jazz sense –– sampling themselves in the studio and editing down the results ; bassist / chief engineer Holger Czukay referred to Can's live and studio performances as " instant compositions ".

He also voiced a character in id Software's game RAGE voicing Dan Hagar, and played movie studio chief Al Zimmer in the Academy Award-winning live action film The Artist.

He was officially admitted to Toyokuni's studio in 1811, and became one of his chief pupils.

He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg.

Disney chief Michael Eisner and his studio executives were not pleased at the uneven story, the lukewarm test-audience response, and the slow pace of production.