13 Facts About Joseph Rosenberg

Joseph H Rosenberg was a bank executive credited with financing most of the Hollywood movie industry in its early days.

Joseph Rosenberg was born in Hungary, immigrated to the US, age six.

When Merchants was absorbed by Bank of America, Joseph Rosenberg became a vice president.

The job of evaluating producers and movies fell to Joseph Rosenberg, who had total responsibility for approving movie lending.

Disney ran a rough cut for Joseph Rosenberg, who sat impassively during the showing.

Joseph Rosenberg, testifying in the trial of the film executive on income tax evasion charges, said that on June 22,1937, four days after the loan was made, Schenck telephoned him just before the bank closed for the day and said he was coming over.

Joseph Rosenberg said that Schenck appeared carrying a brown paper grocer's bag.

At the age of 65 in 1946, the bank forced Joseph Rosenberg to retire, and he started a second career.

Joseph Rosenberg joined Lehman Brothers as a senior partner and opened their Los Angeles office a month after leaving Bank of America.

Joseph Rosenberg died at Good Samaritan Hospital and is interred in Home of Peace Cemetery.

Joseph Rosenberg called it a waste of the country's most productive resource.

Joseph Rosenberg outlived his three brothers, who managed Milwaukee woolen mills in which Joseph Rosenberg held an interest.

Joseph Rosenberg had long been active on behalf of the California school and was chairman of its budget and finance committee.