Kramer, A. Stanley
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Kramer was born on September 23, 1913 in New York City; attended New York University; in the film industry since the mid-30s as a researcher, film editor, and writer, he worked his way up to the position of associate producer by the early 1940s; following World War II, he formed an independent motion picture company, Screen Plays Incorporated, and produced modest-budget films; in 1951, he brought his company as an autonomous unit under the banner of Columbia Pictures; in 1954 the arrangement was terminated by mutual consent; after 1955, Kramer directed and produced films, including: The Pride and the Passion (1957), On the Beach (1959), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963); in 1961 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; six of Kramer's films as a director or producer earned Academy Award nominations: High Noon (1952), The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Defiant Ones (1958), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Ship of Fools (1965), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); in 1991 he was honored with the Producers Guild's David O. Selznick Award.
From the guide to the Stanley Kramer Papers, 1945-1984, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)
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referencedIn | Ford, J. mss., 1906-1976 | Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington) | |
referencedIn | Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
referencedIn | J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated | David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library | |
referencedIn | Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection | Harvard Film Archive, Harvard College Library, Harvard University | |
creatorOf | Stanley Kramer Papers, 1945-1984 | University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections. |
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associatedWith | Communist Party of the United States of America. |
associatedWith | Ford, John, 1895-1973 |
correspondedWith | Matthews, J. B. (Joseph Brown), 1894-1966 |
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