1. Mark John Hellinger was an American journalist, theatre columnist and film producer.
22 Facts About Mark Hellinger
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In 1921, Mark Hellinger began working as a waiter and cashier at a Greenwich Village nightclub in order to meet theatre people.
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Mark Hellinger later was employed by Lane Bryant to write direct mail advertising for clothing for larger and pregnant women.
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In 1923, Mark Hellinger moved to the city desk of the New York Daily News.
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Mark Hellinger numbered such personalities as Walter Winchell, Florenz Ziegfeld, Texas Guinan, Dutch Schultz, and Legs Diamond among his friends.
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In November 1929, Mark Hellinger moved to the New York Daily Mirror.
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Mark Hellinger worked on the story for Racket Busters starring Humphrey Bogart and Comet Over Broadway and provided the story for the 1939 Raoul Walsh gangster film The Roaring Twenties starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, basing it on his own experiences during that decade.
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Mark Hellinger began worked as a producer on B pictures such as The Adventures of Jane Arden, Women in the Wind, Hell's Kitchen and The Cowboy Quarterback.
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Mark Hellinger helped produce The Roaring Twenties starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, his first "A" film.
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Mark Hellinger produced Bs for a little bit longer: Kid Nightingale, and British Intelligence.
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Mark Hellinger followed it with Torrid Zone starring Cagney and Sheridan, and Brother Orchid with Edward G Robinson, Bogart and Sheridan.
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Mark Hellinger made four classics directed by Raoul Walsh: The Roaring Twenties with Cagney and Bogart; They Drive by Night with George Raft, Sheridan, Bogart, and Ida Lupino; High Sierra with Lupino and Bogart; and Manpower with Robinson, Marlene Dietrich and Raft.
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Mark Hellinger made a comedy titled Affectionately Yours with Merle Oberon and Rita Hayworth.
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Mark Hellinger went over to 20th Century Fox to make two films: Rise and Shine, a musical, and Moontide with Jean Gabin, Lupino, Thomas Mitchell and Claude Rains.
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Mark Hellinger set up at Universal, where he had his own producing unit.
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Mark Hellinger had a big hit with The Killers which made stars of both Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.
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Mark Hellinger followed it with Swell Guy with Sonny Tufts, The Two Mrs Carrolls with Bogart back at Warners, Brute Force, and The Naked City, which he narrated.
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Mark Hellinger won the 1947 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture for The Killers.
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In 1926, Mark Hellinger was one of the judges for a beauty contest sponsored by the Daily News.
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Mark Hellinger divorced him in 1932, but after a year the two remarried on the same date as their original wedding, and they remained wed until his death at age 44 from a coronary thrombosis in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles.
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Mark Hellinger was buried in a private mausoleum at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York on Christmas Eve.
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The composer Miklos Rozsa, who had scored The Killers, Brute Force, and The Naked City, was particularly devoted to Hellinger and dedicated his suite of music from those films to the producer's memory.