Gerald Mayer

Director
Gerald Mayer

About

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Birth Place
Montreal, Quebec, CA
Born
June 05, 1919
Died
September 21, 2001
Cause of Death
Complications From Pneumonia

Filmography

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Diamond Safari (1958)
Director
The Marauders (1955)
Director
Code Two (1953)
Fill-In Director
Bright Road (1953)
Director
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
Director
The Sellout (1952)
Director

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Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I Walked Right Into That One

Family & Companions

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Irene Mayer
Wife

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Diamond Safari (1958)
Director
The Marauders (1955)
Director
Code Two (1953)
Fill-In Director
Bright Road (1953)
Director
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
Director
The Sellout (1952)
Director
Inside Straight (1951)
Director
The Unknown Man (1951)
Fill-In Director
Dial 1119 (1950)
Director

Producer (Feature Film)

Diamond Safari (1958)
Producer

Director (Special)

One Last Ride (1980)
Director
The Girl with ESP (1979)
Director

Director (Short)

Mr. Whitney Had a Notion (1949)
Director

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Dorothy Dandridge Unorthodox opening from screenwriter Emmet Lavery, working from the original story by African-American schoolteacher and author Mary Elizabeth Vroman, Dorothy Dandridge narrates as herself, introducing co-star Harry Belafonte, ably directed by Gerald Mayer, nephew of the studio boss, in MGM’s Bright Road, 1953.
Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I Walked Right Into That One We learn here that new teacher Jane (Dorothy Dandridge) is also the Sunday school teacher, leading a hymn and continuing her internal monologue from the original story by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, getting into trick topics with troubled C.T. (Philip Hepburn), in MGM’s Bright Road, 1953, co-starring Harry Belafonte.
Bright Road (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Suzanne (Ev'ry Night When The Sun Goes Down) New teacher Jane (Dorothy Dandridge) struggling with grades, then a heck of a thing to discover about one’s principal, Harry Belafonte as “Mr. Williams,” with the modernized folk song, never a single but a favorite track from his chart-topping second album (Belafonte, 1955), in MGM’s Bright Road, 1953.
Holiday For Sinners (1952) -- (Movie Clip) A Woman Was Dead Gig Young as doctor Jason Kent narrating, visited by childhood friend, priest Victor (Richard Anderson) at a grim moment during Mardi Gras, opening MGM's Holiday For Sinners, 1952, directed by Gerald Mayer, nephew of the studio boss.
Holiday For Sinners (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Conditioned Reflex Doctor Jason (Gig Young) comes home to find his badly compromised ex-boxer friend Joe (Keenan Wynn), his first appearance in Holiday For Sinners, 1952, MGM's Mardi Gras drama based on a novel by New Orleans writer and long-time New Yorker editor Hamilton Basso.

Family

Jerry G Mayer
Father
Louis B Mayer
Uncle
Executive, distributor, exhibitor.
Jillian Richman Silva
Daughter
Alison Nestri
Daughter
Jeremy Mayer
Son

Companions

Irene Mayer
Wife

Bibliography

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