Louis Sarecky

Louis Sarecky (January 26, 1886 – March 4, 1946) was an American film producer and screenwriter at the very beginning of the sound era of motion pictures. Born in 1886 in Odessa in what was then the Russian Empire (today now part of Ukraine), he began his career in the last year of silent film, 1928, working on five films that year, four as screenwriter and one as producer. While he is only credited with working on 26 films, some of those were among the most popular films at that time: The Vagabond Lover, Rudy Vallée's screen debut; The Cuckoos, starring the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey; and Friends and Lovers in 1931, starring Adolphe Menjou and Laurence Olivier. His crowning achievement would be the Academy Award-winning 1931 film Cimarron. Sarecky was the associate producer on the film, as well as helping adapt the screenplay, although he was uncredited for the latter. Since the film won the Oscar for both outstanding production and best adapted screenplay, he would have the dubious distinction of contributing in both those fields, yet not receiving an Academy Award himself (William LeBaron would receive the Outstanding Production Oscar, while Howard Estabrook would get the writing statue).

Sarecky was the brother to the more well-known writer and producer, Barney Sarecky. Louis would die in Los Angeles California in 1946.

Filmography (as per AFI's database) Year Title Role Notes 1928 Stocks and Blondes Producer 1928 Blockade Screenplay 1928 Hey Rube! Screenplay 1928 His Last Haul Original story 1928 Legionnaires in Paris Original story 1929 Night Parade Associate producer 1929 Street Girl Associate producer 1929 Tanned Legs Producer 1929 Associate Producer 1929 Love in the Desert Original story 1930 Associate Producer 1930 Leathernecking Associate Producer 1930 Shooting Straight Producer 1931 Cimarron Associate Producer, screenplay 1931 Are These Our Children? Associate Producer 1931 Friends and Lovers Producer 1931 Everything's Rosie Associate Producer 1931 Kept Husbands Associate Producer, screenplay 1931 Associate Producer 1931 Secret Service Associate Producer 1931 Associate Producer 1931 Young Donovan's Kid Associate Producer 1932 Associate Producer 1932 Girl of the Rio Associate Producer 1934 Gridiron Flash Associate Producer 1941 Kansas Cyclone Original story