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Irving Thalberg (1899–1936)

Producer | Writer | Director

Thalberg was born in New York City of German immigrant parents. He had a bad heart, having contracted rheumatic fever as a teenager and was plagued with other ailments all of his life. He was quite intelligent with a thirst for knowledge but, convinced that he would never see thirty, he skipped college and became... See full bio »

Born:

Irving Grant Thalberg
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died:

(age 37) in Santa Monica, California, USA
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1938 Marie Antoinette (producer - uncredited)
 
1937 Broadway Melody of 1938 (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1937 A Day at the Races (producer - uncredited)
 
1937 Maytime (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1937 The Good Earth (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1936 Camille (producer - uncredited)
 
1936 Romeo and Juliet (producer - uncredited)
 
1936 Riffraff (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1935 A Night at the Opera (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty (producer - uncredited)
 
1935 China Seas (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1935 No More Ladies (producer - uncredited)
 
1935 La veuve joyeuse (producer)
 
1935 Biography of a Bachelor Girl (producer - uncredited)
 
1934 What Every Woman Knows (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1934 The Merry Widow (producer - uncredited)
 
1934 Outcast Lady (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1934 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (producer - uncredited)
 
1934 Riptide (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 Eskimo (producer - uncredited)
 
1933 Tugboat Annie (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Strange Interlude (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Rasputin and the Empress (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Red Dust (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Smilin' Through (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Red-Headed Woman (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 As You Desire Me (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Letty Lynton (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Grand Hotel (producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Tarzan the Ape Man (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1932 Freaks (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Mata Hari (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Private Lives (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Possessed (producer - uncredited)
 
1931/I The Champ (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 The Guardsman (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 The Sin of Madelon Claudet (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Menschen hinter Gittern (producer)
 
1931 Just a Gigolo (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1931 A Free Soul (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1931 The Secret Six (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Trader Horn (producer - uncredited)
 
1931 Inspiration (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 A Lady's Morals (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 Way for a Sailor (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 Billy the Kid (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 Let Us Be Gay (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 The Unholy Three (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 The Big House (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 The Rogue Song (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 The Divorcee (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 Redemption (producer - uncredited)
 
1930 Anna Christie (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 The Kiss (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 His Glorious Night (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 Hallelujah! (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 Where East Is East (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 The Voice of the City (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 The Trial of Mary Dugan (producer - uncredited)
 
1929 The Broadway Melody (producer - uncredited)
 
1928 West of Zanzibar (producer - uncredited)
 
1928 Show People (producer - uncredited)
 
1928 White Shadows in the South Seas (producer - uncredited)
 
1928 The Adventurer (producer - uncredited)
 
1928 Laugh, Clown, Laugh (producer)
 
1928 The Crowd (producer - uncredited)
 
1927 London After Midnight (producer - uncredited)
 
1927 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (executive producer - uncredited)
 
1927 Twelve Miles Out (producer - uncredited)
 
1927 Flesh and the Devil (producer - uncredited)
 
1926 Valencia (producer - uncredited)
 
1926 The Temptress (producer - uncredited)
 
1926 The Road to Mandalay (producer)
 
1926 Brown of Harvard (producer - uncredited)
 
1926 La bohème (producer - uncredited)
 
1926 Torrent (producer - uncredited)
 
1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (producer - uncredited)
 
1925 The Big Parade (producer - uncredited)
 
1925 The Tower of Lies (producer)
 
1925 The Merry Widow (producer - uncredited)
 
1925 The Unholy Three (producer - uncredited)
 
1924 Greed (producer - uncredited)
 
1924 He Who Gets Slapped (producer - uncredited)
 
1924 His Hour (producer - uncredited)
 
1923/I The Hunchback of Notre Dame (producer - uncredited)
 
1923 Merry-Go-Round (producer)
 
1922 Foolish Wives (producer - uncredited)
 
1921 Reputation (producer - uncredited)
 
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1922 The Trap (story)
 
1922 The Dangerous Little Demon (as I.R. Irving)
 
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1929 Queen Kelly (uncredited)
 
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1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (acknowledgment)
 
1937 The Good Earth (we dedicate this picture to the memory of - as Irving Grant Thalberg)
 
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1925 1925 Studio Tour (documentary short)
Himself - MGM Associate Executive
 
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2013 Short and Spicy Skits from the Other Side of Hollywood: The Home Movies of William Randolph Hearst (short)
The Chased
 
2005 Garbo (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2004 So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2004 On Your Marx, Get Set, Go! (video documentary short)
Himself (photo)
 
2004 Checking Out: Grand Hotel (video documentary short)
Himself - Producer
 
2003 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
2003 Complicated Women (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Greta Garbo: A Lone Star (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2001 Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2000 Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2000 Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1998 Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1993 Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (video documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1993 The Unknown Marx Brothers (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars
Himself
 
1986 Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory (TV documentary)
Himself - film clips
 
1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (documentary short)
Himself
 

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The Trap -- A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
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Personal Details

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2 Biographical Movies  | 4 Print Biographies  | 20 Articles  | See more »

Alternate Names:

I.R. Irving | Irving Grant Thalberg

Height:

5' 11" (1.80 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

Credit you give yourself is not worth having. Thalberg would not allow his name on his pictures; the one exception being The Good Earth, posthumously. See more »

Trivia:

After a preview of the Marie Dressler-Wallace Beery picture Tugboat Annie, Thalberg asked director Mervyn LeRoy if a scene could be improved by making Beery's shoes squeak. LeRoy agreed, but detailed how it would be economically prohibitive to reshoot the scene as the sets had been dismantled and the cast had dispersed... See more »

Trademark:

So often referred to solutions for complex problems as "a lead pipe cinch," it became his catchphrase. See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini