Hunt Stromberg

Hunt Stromberg (July 12, 1894 – August 23, 1968) was a film producer during Hollywood's Golden Age. In a prolific 30-year career beginning in 1921, Stromberg produced, wrote, and directed some of Hollywood's most profitable and enduring films, including The Thin Man series, the Nelson Eddy/Jeanette MacDonald operettas, The Women, and The Great Ziegfeld, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1936.

Early career Hunt Stromberg was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1894. Leaving a career as a newspaper reporter and sports writer for the St. Louis Times, he followed an advertising friend into the motion picture industry prior to World War I, becoming publicity director for the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in New York.

In 1918, the company sent Stromberg to California, where he developed an interest in filmmaking;

Filmography Producer

Director or Screenwriter The Foolish Age (1921), writer Breaking Into Society (1923), director The Siren of Seville (1924), director Roaring Rails (1924), screenwriter The Fire Patrol (1924, director Paint and Powder (1925, director Soft Shoes (1925), screenwriter Winning the Futurity (1926), screenwriter The White Sister (1933), director The Strange Woman (1946), screenwriter