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I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History
By: Walter Mirisch , Sidney PoitierImprint: University of Wisconsin Press
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This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood's true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch's company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven. His work has led to eighty-seven Academy Award nominations and twenty-eight Oscars. Illustrated with rare photographs from his personal collection, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History reveals Mirisch's own experience of Hollywood in its golden days and tells the stories of the stars-emerging and established-who appeared in his films, including Natlie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others. With hard-won insight and gentle humor, Mirisch recounts how he witnessed the end of the studio system, the development of independent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywood's most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. A producer with a passion for creative excellence, he offers insights into his innovative filmmaking process, revealing a rare ingenuity for placating the demands of auteur directors, weak-kneed studio executives, and troubled screen sirens. From his early start as a movie theater usher to the presentation of such masterpieces as The Apartment, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Great Escape, Mirisch tells the inspiring life story of his climb to the highest echelon of the American film industry. This book assures Mirisch's legacy-as Elmore Leonard puts it-as "one of the good guys."
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| Title of eBook: I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History | |
| Release Date: 04-24-2009 | |
| Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press |
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I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History
Chapter One
My Family
My mother, Josephine Frances Urbach, and my father, Max Mirisch, were married in New York City on March 4, 1917. He was the proprietor of a custom tailoring business that made men's clothes to order for a largely upper-middle-class clientele, a business that he had been in for about twenty years.
Max Mirisch had come alone to America in 1891 at the age of seventeen as an immigrant from the city of Krakow, which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but incorporated into Poland after World War I. He was born there to Sarah Freundlich and Moses Mirisch in the Juden Gasse (Jew Street), where his father had been a dealer in old clothes. At the age of ten my father had been apprenticed to a tailor, and that trade became his lifelong work.
Feeling the sting of anti-Semitism and the utter lack of opportunity in the ghetto in which he lived, Max determined to come to America at the first opportunity, and so when he was hardly more than a boy, he marshaled the incredible courage necessary to embark from Hamburg on his great adventure. He traveled in steerage aboard a German ship with only a few pennies in his pocket.
After arriving in New York, he first stayed with relatives, mainly an older sister, Anna, who had preceded him to America and had financed his passage. He struggled to find work, earn a living, and learn the English language. When he was in his early twenties he set up his own establishment as a custom tailor in the Harlem area of New York City.
My mother was born in Keyport, New Jersey, in 1891, the daughter of immigrants. Her father, David Urbac
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