46 Facts About Dore Schary

Isadore "Dore" Schary was an American playwright, director, and producer for the stage and a prolific screenwriter and producer of motion pictures.

Dore Schary directed one feature film, Act One, the film biography of his friend, playwright and theater director Moss Hart.

Dore Schary became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and replaced Louis B Mayer as president of the studio in 1951.

Dore Schary's father ran a catering business called the Dore Schary Manor.

Dore Schary attended Central High School for a year but dropped out to sell haberdashery and buy china.

Dore Schary worked as a journalist, did publicity for a lecture tour by Rear Adm.

Dore Schary appeared on Broadway in The Last Mile with Spencer Tracy.

Dore Schary moved to Hollywood, but his option with Wanger was dropped after three months.

Dore Schary's early writing credits include He Couldn't Take It for Monogram, and Fury of the Jungle and Fog at Columbia.

Dore Schary worked on Let's Talk It Over for Universal, The Most Precious Thing in Life at Columbia, and Young and Beautiful at Universal.

At Warners, Dore Schary wrote Murder in the Clouds and Red Hot Tires.

Dore Schary did some uncredited work on Paramount's Mississippi, and wrote for Republic's Racing Luck.

Dore Schary went to Fox for Silk Hat Kid, Your Uncle Dudley and Song and Dance Man.

Dore Schary was briefly under contract at MGM for a few months in 1936.

Dore Schary earned Oscar nominations on the latter for Best Screenplay and Best Story, winning for Best Story.

Dore Schary went on to write Broadway Melody of 1940, Young Tom Edison with Mickey Rooney and Edison, the Man with Tracy.

Dore Schary began with Joe Smith, American, based on Dore Schary's own story, which became a solid hit.

Dore Schary accepted an offer to go to work for David O Selznick's Vanguard Films as head of the production.

Dore Schary produced I'll Be Seeing You, The Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter with Loretta Young, and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple.

Dore Schary personally produced Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, a big hit, and championed Crossfire, a major success for the studio.

MGM's parent company, Loews Incorporated in New York, decided that Dore Schary might be able to turn the tide.

Dore Schary signed to be vice president in charge of production in July 1948.

Dore Schary co-wrote the 1950 book Case History of a Movie, which extensively covered, from initial conception to screening, the production of the film The Next Voice You Hear.

In July 1951 Dore Schary took over complete control of production at MGM.

Dore Schary was to remain as a consultant for MGM until 1968 at $100,000 a year.

Contemporary newspaper reports and Dore Schary later claimed he was fired because of his political activities, including his close association with the Democratic Party.

However, MGM swimming star Esther Williams would later state in her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid that Dore Schary was just as rude, cruel, and as imperious as Mayer had been.

Dore Schary noted that she thought it appropriate that Schary was fired on Thanksgiving, since he was a "turkey".

Dore Schary wrote and produced the Broadway play Sunrise at Campobello, about Roosevelt, starring Ralph Bellamy.

Dore Schary had another Broadway hit when he produced and directed the comedy A Majority of One by Leonard Spigelgass, starring Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke.

Dore Schary earned a Tony nomination for his direction and the show ran for 556 performances.

Less successful was The Highest Tree, which Dore Schary wrote, produced and directed and Triple Play, a collection of short plays, which he produced.

Dore Schary wrote and produced the film version of Sunrise at Campobello, which was released by Warner Brothers, directed by Donehue, in 1960.

Dore Schary had a brief uncredited role in the film as Chairman of the Connecticut Delegation.

On Broadway, Dore Schary had another huge hit as producer and director with the Meredith Wilson musical, The Unsinkable Molly Brown starring Tammy Grimes, which ran for 532 performances.

Dore Schary wrote, produced and directed The Devil's Advocate, based on the novel by Morris West, which ran for 116 performances.

Dore Schary produced and directed Something About a Soldier by Ernest Kinoy and Love and Kisses by Anita Block both which had short runs.

Dore Schary made his directorial debut in movies with Act One based on the memoirs of Moss Hart; Dore Schary wrote and produced.

Dore Schary wrote two more produced Broadway plays, Brightower and Herzl, neither of which had long runs.

Dore Schary wrote his memoirs, Heyday, which came out shortly before his death.

Dore Schary served as National Chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith from 1963 until April 22,1969, when Samuel Dalsimer was elected the new National Chairman.

Dore Schary worked as a printer in his youth at Art Craft Press in Newark, New Jersey.

Dore Schary married Miriam Svet, a pianist and painter, on March 5,1932.

Miriam and Dore Schary had seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Dore Schary died in 1980, aged 74, and was interred in the Hebrew Cemetery, West Long Branch, New Jersey.

Miriam Svet Dore Schary died on October 2,1986, aged 74, and was interred next to her husband in the Hebrew Cemetery.