1. Albert Zugsmith was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s.
19 Facts About Albert Zugsmith
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Albert Zugsmith was a film buff, and wanted to move into film producing.
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In 1947, Albert Zugsmith represented Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in their lawsuit against National Comics.
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Shuster would later speculate that Albert Zugsmith had cut a deal with National without his clients' knowledge.
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Albert Zugsmith formed American Pictures Corporation, along with Peter Miller, Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen.
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Albert Zugsmith followed it with Paris Model, and Top Banana, both comedies.
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Albert Zugsmith's success saw him receive a long term contract at Universal.
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Albert Zugsmith had a big hit with Written on the Wind starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall and Dorothy Malone, directed by Douglas Sirk.
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Albert Zugsmith did The Tarnished Angels which reunited Sirk, Hudson, Stack and Malone, and Man in the Shadow with Chandler and Orson Welles, directed by Arnold.
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Albert Zugsmith did The Female Animal with Hedy Lamarr from his own story, directed by Harry Keller.
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Albert Zugsmith says he left Universal because he was unhappy Edward Muhl had been made subservient to Al Daff He moved to MGM, where he signed a six-picture deal.
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Albert Zugsmith followed it with Night of the Quarter Moon ; The Beat Generation, with Van Doren and Steve Cochran, co-written by Matheson, and directed by Haas; The Big Operator with Van Doren, Cochran and Mickey Rooney, directed by Haas; and Girls Town with Van Doren, directed by Haas.
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Albert Zugsmith turned director with The Private Lives of Adam and Eve which he filmed with Rooney, who starred; Van Doren was in the cast.
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Albert Zugsmith was billed as sole director for College Confidential starring Steve Allen, from a story by Albert Zugsmith, at Universal.
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Albert Zugsmith produced Zigzag in the Philippines, then produced and directed The Great Space Adventure.
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Albert Zugsmith produced Russ Meyer's Fanny Hill, but the two men disliked working together.
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Albert Zugsmith directed some scenes of Dog Eat Dog.
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Albert Zugsmith's older sister, Leane Zugsmith, was a leading proletarian novelist in the 1930s.
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Albert Zugsmith had two daughters, Suzan and Patricia and a son Michael.