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Jerry Wald (September 16, 1911 – July 13, 1962) was an American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs. ==Life and career== Born Jerome Irving Wald in Brooklyn, New York, he had a brother and sons who were active in show business. He began writing a radio column for the ''New York Evening Graphic'', while studying at New York University. This led to him producing several ''Rambling 'Round Radio Row'' featurettes for Vitaphone, Warner Brothers' short subject division (1932–33). He wrote and produced numerous films between the 1930s and 1960s, including ''Stars Over Broadway'' (1935), ''The Roaring Twenties'' (1939), ''On Your Toes'' (1939, in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley), ''They Drive by Night'' (1940), ''Across the Pacific'' (1942), ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' (1942), ''Destination Tokyo'' (1943), ''Mildred Pierce'' (1945), ''Johnny Belinda'' (1948), ''Key Largo'' (1948), ''Always Leave Them Laughing'' (1949), ''The Glass Menagerie'' (1950), and ''Perfect Strangers'' (1950). Wald and Norman Krasna formed Wald/Krasna Productions to release films through RKO Radio Pictures, including ''Two Tickets to Broadway'' (1951), ''The Blue Veil'' (1951), ''Behave Yourself!'' (1952), ''The Lusty Men'' (1952), and ''Clash by Night'' (1953). Krasna and Wald dissolved their partnership because of interference from Howard Hughes, then head of RKO, in their productions. Wald went on to produce ''Peyton Place'' (1957), ''An Affair to Remember'' (1957), ''In Love and War'' (1958), ''The Sound and the Fury'' (1959), ''Sons and Lovers'' (1960), ''Return to Peyton Place'' (1961), and ''Wild in the Country'' (1961). He also produced the Academy Awards telecast twice, the ceremonies for 1957 and 1958.〔(Jerry Wald credits at IMDb )〕 He received four Academy Award nominations as producer of the following nominees for Best Picture: ''Mildred Pierce'', ''Johnny Belinda'', ''Peyton Place'' and ''Sons and Lovers''. Although he never won a competitive Academy Award, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1949.〔Osborne, p. 131〕 Wald is often cited as the real-life inspiration for the character Sammy Glick in the novel ''What Makes Sammy Run'' by Budd Schulberg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jerry Wald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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