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Isadore "Dore" Schary (August 31, 1905 – July 7, 1980) was an American playwright, director, and producer for the stage and a prolific screenwriter and producer of motion pictures. He directed one feature film, Act One, the film biography of his friend, playwright and theatre director Moss Hart.
Isadore "Dore" Schary (August 31, 1905 – July 7, 1980) 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 during the 1950s. Known For. Bad Day at Black Rock. The Spiral Staircase. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.
Aug 27, 2024 · Dore Schary was a U.S. motion-picture producer, screenwriter, playwright, and director whose career included work on more than 300 motion pictures. Between 1926 and 1932 Schary worked in the New York City area as a director of amateur theatricals, a publicist, and a newspaper writer and at summer.
Career: Dore Schary. 1926–32—stage director, actor, publicity director, and newspaper writer; 1933–37—film writer for Paramount, Warner Bros., and Columbia; 1938–41—writer, MGM; 1943–46—producer, David O. Selznick Productions; 1948–56—vice president in charge of production and studio operations, MGM; 1959—founded Schary ...
Schary announced a huge increase in MGM's 1949-50 production schedule, detailing some 67 projects, compared to it's meager 24 the previous season (many of which proved to be outright flops). With this new sense of vitality, the studio's profits rose 50% in 1949 but faced the looming threat of television.
A biography and filmography of Dore Schary, the film director, writer, producer, and playwright who had a long and varied Hollywood career but who is best known for being the man who replaced MGM's legendary head, Louis B. Mayer.
Former actor and journalist who began writing screenplays in the 1930s and worked as executive producer of MGM's B productions (1941-43), producer for David O. Selznick (1943-47), executive vice president of production for RKO (1947-48) and, most notably, chief of production at MGM (1948-1956).
