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Arthur L. Mayer (March 28, 1886, Demopolis, Alabama - April 14, 1981, New York City) was an American film producer and film distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn in distributing films directed by Roberto Rossellini and other famous European film directors.
He initially worked as a public relations representative for the Yiddish theater circuit in New York City before becoming active in film distribution with business partner Arthur Mayer from the late 1930s to the late 1940s.
Apr 15, 1981 · Arthur Loeb Mayer, a legendary motion-picture exhibitor, distributor and lecturer on film history, died in New York yesterday at the age of 94. For more than half a century he was an...
Arthur L. Mayer (March 28, 1886, Demopolis, Alabama - April 14, 1981, New York City) was an American film producer and film distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn in distributing films directed by Roberto Rossellini and other famous European film directors.
Mar 17, 2009 · Historians will point to outliers like “The Exiles,” Kent MacKenzie’s 1961 drama about Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles, or Charles Burnett’s “Killer of ...
In November 1939, the film was released in the U.S. by Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn after a long court battle over American film censorship. Burstyn was later involved in the Miracle Decision (1952) overturning film censorship in the U.S.
Arthur L. Mayer attended Harvard, and then became a film producer and film distributor. These films were often distributed under the company name Burstyn-Mayer Inc. In 1949 he distributed French films in the United States with Edward Kingsley of Kingsley-International Pictures.
