American screenwriter and producer (died 1936)

Irving Thalberg

Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and ability to select scripts, choose actors, gather production staff, and make profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, A Night at the Opera, Mutiny on the Bounty, Camille, and The Good Earth. His films carved out an international market, "projecting a seductive image of American life brimming with vitality and rooted in democracy and personal freedom", states biographer Roland Flamini.

Born

1899

May 30

Died

1936

Era

1890s

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Irving, in brief

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1899 Born
1936 Died

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70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres (9.3 mi).
1381 Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in England.
1416 The Council of Constance, called by Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 Hundred Years' War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.

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The world in 1936

When Irving departed

april 15 First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
april 19 The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
april 27 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
april 3 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

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Alfred Austin 1835– English author, poet, and playwright (died 1913) Colm Meaney 1953– Irish actor Danielle Harold 1992– English actress Gianmaria Bruni 1981– Italian race car driver Hannes Alfvén 1908–1995 Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908) Im Yoon-ah 1990– South Korean singer and actress Jason Kenney 1968– Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Alberta Julius Axelrod 1912–2004 American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912) Michael López-Alegría 1958– Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1899

Albert Claude 1899–1983 Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983) Alfred Blalock 1899– American surgeon and academic (died 1964) Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980 English-American director and producer (born 1899) Andrei Platonov 1899–1951 Russian author and poet (died 1951) Andrija Artuković 1899–1988 Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, first Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (born 1899) Billy Rose 1899–1966 American composer and songwriter (born 1899) Bruce Catton 1899–1978 American historian and journalist (born 1899) Chief Dan George 1899–1981 Canadian actor (died 1981) Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1899– Romanian politician (died 1938)

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