Milton Sperling was an American film producer and screenwriter for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.
11 Facts About Milton Sperling
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Milton Sperling later became a personal secretary for Darryl F Zanuck and Hal Wallis at Warner Bros.
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Milton Sperling learned as much about an independent low-budget film production unit as he had about high-budget major studio films from Zanuck and Wallis at Warner Bros.
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Milton Sperling later did more screenwriting, credited and uncredited, for 20th Century Fox, becoming a film producer in 1941, with his first productions being Sun Valley Serenade then I Wake Up Screaming, both in 1941.
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In 1941, Milton Sperling was an associate producer on the US Marine Corps Technicolor romantic military film comedy To the Shores of Tripoli and quickly filmed a new ending, showing John Payne hearing the news about the attack and reenlisting in the Marines.
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Milton Sperling enlisted in the Marines with orders to attend Military Intelligence school but still had several films to complete before leaving the studio.
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Milton Sperling named his company "United States Pictures" with his first of 14 films released under the label being Cloak and Dagger.
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Milton Sperling contributed to the screenplays on several of these films, including The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell that was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Writing, Story and Screenplay.
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Milton Sperling produced other films not under the United States Pictures label such as Top Secret Affair, filmed in England, and Marjorie Morningstar.
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Milton Sperling later produced a Spanish made "Spaghetti Western" with Lee Van Cleef in the role of Captain Apache, then several television movies until his death from cancer in 1988.
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Milton Sperling was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, in Los Angeles.