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Oct 8, 1986 · Hal B. Wallis, whose 200 motion pictures chronicled the lives of such diverse human creatures as “Little Caesar” and “Becket” and who was among the final few of the breed of film titans ...
May 2, 2010 · Hal B. Wallis, C.B.E., was born, Harold Brent Wallis on 14 September 1899 in Chicago. He died on October 5, 1986. He was an Academy Award-winning American motion picture producer.
Motion Picture Producer, Studio Executive. Among the most influential and successful producers in Hollywood history, he is responsible for such classic pictures as The Maltese Falcon (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1941) and Casablanca (1942) in addition to many more. Born Aaron Blum Wolowicz to parents of Jewish...
Jan 1, 1980 · Hal Wallis made some of the greats movies in Hollywood as a producer. His credits include "Casablanca" and "True Grit". He is very matter of fact in his writing approach as he is in his producing.
This work is alluded to in other celebrity memoirs and film reference books as being a great autobiography about Hollywood. It's not. There are about a half dozen interesting inside stories on famous movie stars that Wallis worked with, but otherwise the extremely short book (185 pages before addendums) is simply the author skipping through his production history without going into any depth.
Hal B.Wallis was one of the most important movie producers from the Golden Age of Hollywood filmmaking of the 1930s and 1940s. On one classic Warner Bros. movie after another Hal B.Wallis' name is listed under the title: Warner's studio boss, Jack L. Warner, was the brother in charge of the west coast studio, but surely his right-hand man, Hal Wallis, did most of the day to day work producing.
Oct 17, 2014 · Hal Wallis (1898-1986) might not be as well known as David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn, but the films he produced—Casablanca, Jezebel, Now, Voyager, The Life of Emile Zola, Becket, True Grit, and many other classics (as well as scores of Elvis movies)—have certainly endured.
