Dore Schary

Producer, Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Jeb Schary, Mr. Dore Schary

Birth Place

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Born

August 31, 1905

Died

July 07, 1980

Biography

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Former actor and journalist who began writing screenplays in the 1930s and worked as executive producer of MGM's B productions (1941-43), producer for David O. Selznick (1943-47), executive vice president of production for RKO (1947-48) and, most notably, chief of production at MGM (1948-1956). Schary was unable to save MGM from its TV-induced decline in the 1950s and, after being ousted...

Filmography

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MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992)

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Chairman of Connecticut delegation

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947)

Man who drives Dickie to airport

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Photos & Videos

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Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) My Anatomy Is Terrible

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Little People

Bibliography

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"Storm in the West"

Dore Schary and Sinclair Lewis (1963)

"For Special Occasions"

Dore Schary (1962)

"Case History of a Movie"

Dore Schary (1950)

Notes

He was the national chairman of B'Nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League.

He was the NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs.

Biography

Former actor and journalist who began writing screenplays in the 1930s and worked as executive producer of MGM's B productions (1941-43), producer for David O. Selznick (1943-47), executive vice president of production for RKO (1947-48) and, most notably, chief of production at MGM (1948-1956). Schary was unable to save MGM from its TV-induced decline in the 1950s and, after being ousted from the company, wrote plays and made occasional, independent films.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Cast (Feature Film)

MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992)

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Chairman of Connecticut delegation

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947)

Man who drives Dickie to airport

Writer (Feature Film)

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Lonelyhearts (1958)

Written for Screen by

It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952)

Story for picture

It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952)

Episode seven wrt

The Next Voice You Hear (1950)

Live Wires (1946)

Here Comes Kelly (1943)

Married Bachelor (1941)

Young Tom Edison (1940)

Edison, the Man (1940)

Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

Behind the News (1940)

Boys Town (1938)

Boys Town (1938)

Ladies in Distress (1938)

Story idea suggested by

Big City (1937)

The Girl from Scotland Yard (1937)

Her Master's Voice (1936)

Mind Your Own Business (1936)

Timothy's Quest (1936)

Song and Dance Man (1936)

Contract Writer

Chinatown Squad (1935)

Red Hot Tires (1935)

Additional Dialogue

Your Uncle Dudley (1935)

Storm over the Andes (1935)

Contract Writer

Mississippi (1935)

The Raven (1935)

Contract Writer

Silk Hat Kid (1935)

Let's Talk It Over (1934)

Young and Beautiful (1934)

Murder in the Clouds (1934)

Story and Screenplay

Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)

He Couldn't Take It (1933)

Screenplay and story

Fury of the Jungle (1933)

Producer (Feature Film)

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Lonelyhearts (1958)

Designing Woman (1957)

The Last Hunt (1956)

The Swan (1956)

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Dream Wife (1953)

Take the High Ground! (1953)

Westward the Women (1952)

Plymouth Adventure (1952)

Talk About a Stranger (1952)

Executive Producer

Washington Story (1952)

The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

Executive Producer

Go for Broke! (1951)

The Next Voice You Hear (1950)

Battleground (1949)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

I Remember Mama (1948)

Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

Crossfire (1947)

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Journey for Margaret (1942)

Executive Producer

Kid Glove Killer (1942)

Executive Producer

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)

They Live by Night (1949)

Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

A Woman's Secret (1949)

Berlin Express (1948)

The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

Race Street (1948)

Station West (1948)

The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947)

The Farmer's Daughter (1947)

The Spiral Staircase (1946)

Till the End of Time (1946)

Cast (Short)

DARKNESS INTO LIGHT (1956)

THE HOAXSTERS (1952)

The Screen Writer (1950)

The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1950)

Writer (Short)

The Battle of Gettysburg (1956)

Producer (Short)

The Battle of Gettysburg (1956)

THE HOAXSTERS (1952)

Life Events

1930

Broadway acting debut "The Last Mile"

1932

First produced screenplay "He Couldn't Take It"

1941

Appointed executive director of MGM's B unit

1947

Executive VP in charge of production at RKO

1948

Chief of production at MGM

1956

Wrote and produced Broadway play, "Sunrise at Campobello"

1963

Film directorial debut, "Act One"

Videos

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) My Anatomy Is Terrible Opening with 20-year-old Shirley Temple, now a young married mom, loaned out with her husband John Agar by David Selznick to RKO, with a narrated gag and encounters with Regina Wallace her teacher and Robert Young her minister father, in Adventure In Baltimore, 1949.

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Little People Home early in 1905, expelled from boarding school for her liberal views about art, Shirley Temple as aspiring painter Dinah with her brother (Johnny Sands), the family maid (Tillie Born) and her mother (Josephine Hutchinson), in Adventure In Baltimore, 1949, from a story Lesser Samuels and Christopher Isherwood, also starring Temple’s husband John Agar.

Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Used To Be A Spaghetti Restaurant Joining his flashback as he's testifying for the cops, murder suspect soldier Mitchell (George Cooper) is recounting his visit with somewhat soft-hearted taxi dancer Ginny (Gloria Grahame) in Edward Dmytryk's military mystery Crossfire, 1947.

Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Murder Dark and dramatic opening to Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire, 1947, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame, from a novel by Richard Brooks.

Race Street (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Give Me Orders At a Chicago racket hangout, high rolling bookie Dan (George Raft) is visited by cop Barney (William Bendix), who pushes him not to seek his own vengeance for the murder of their mutual childhood friend, in Race Street, 1948.

Woman's Secret, A (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Songs Of Estrellita The prominent movie music director Constantin Bakaleinikoff appears, directing a radio orchestra, as director Nicholas Ray introduces his leading ladies, Susan (Gloria Grahame) and Marian (Maureen O'Hara), opening A Woman's Secret, 1949, from a Vicki Baum novel.

Sunrise At Campobello (1960) -- (Movie Clip) None Of Your Amiable Chatter Eleanor (Greer Garson) with local doctor (Frank Ferguson) and family confidante Louis (Hume Cronyn) before he rejoins the mysteriously stricken Franklin (Ralph Bellamy), in the Roosevelt family drama Sunrise At Campobello, 1960.

Sunrise At Campobello (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Hard-Boiled Chicken Dig the vigor, as Franklin (Ralph Bellamy) and Eleanor (Greer Garson) manage their brood (Zina Bethune, Tim Considine et al) in writer-producer Dore Schary's hagiographic tale of the Roosevelt's, Sunrise At Campobello, 1960.

Plymouth Adventure (1952) -- (Movie Clip) 132 Rutting Beasts Busted by first mate Coppin (Lloyd Bridges) for wasting water, youthful Pilgrim wife Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney), who’s already been nearly assaulted by captain Jones (Spencer Tracy), earns a real rude talking-to, in MGM’s Plymouth Adventure, 1952.

Plymouth Adventure (1952) -- (Movie Clip) We Be Loaded Deep Exhaustive exposition from producer Dore Schary, focused on introducing Leo Genn and Gene Tierney as the Bradfords, Kathleen Lockhart as Mrs. Brewster, John Dehner as Winslow, Van Johnson as Alden, finally Spencer Tracy as Jones, Lloyd Bridges as Coppin, in MGM's Plymouth Adventure, 1952.

Plymouth Adventure (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Hymns And Prayers Should have seen this coming, Captain Jones (Spencer Tracy) has been warning of the ways of sailors, comes home to the Mayflower drunk one evening, finding Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney), rescued by her husband (Leo Genn), still in port in England, in Plymouth Adventure, 1952.

Boys Town (1938) -- (Movie Clip) No Such Thing As A Bad Boy Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) lobbies Nebraska newspaper magnate Hargraves (Jonathan Hale), a montage creates the buildings, and financier Dave (Henry Hull) frets, in MGM's Boys Town, 1938.

They Live By Night (1949) -- (Original Trailer) RKO’s trailer is not far off the mark for director Nicholas Ray’s eventually-acclaimed debut feature, They Live By Night, starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell.

Swan, The - (Original Trailer) On the eve of her marriage to a prince, a noblewoman falls for her brother's tutor in The Swan (1956) starring Grace Kelly.

MGM Story - (Original Trailer) Lionel Barrymore shows highlights from the studio's latest in The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (1951).

Young Tom Edison -- (Original Trailer) Mickey Rooney is Young Tom Edison (1940), defying authority to develop his first inventions.

Go For Broke - (Original Trailer) Many of the actual veterans appear in Go For Broke (1951), the story of the all Japanese-American Regimental Combat Team in World War II.

Dream Wife - (Original Trailer) Cary Grant sparks an international incident when he proposes marriage to the daughter of a king in Dream Wife (1953).

Crossfire - (Original Trailer) When a Jewish man is murdered, a homicide detective suspects a hate crime in Crossfire (1947) starring Robert Ryan in one of his best performances.

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - (Re-issue Trailer) A New York businessman's dream of a country home goes awry when he purchases a tumbledown rural shack in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948).

Sunrise at Campobello - (Pan-and-scan trailer) After a bout with polio, future president Franklin Roosevelt fights to save his political career in the film biography, Sunrise at Campobello (1960), starring Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson.

Red Badge of Courage, The - (Original Trailer) A young Union soldier (Audie Murphy) struggles to atone for a moment of cowardice in The Red Badge of Courage (1951), directed by John Huston.

Next Voice You Hear, The - (Original Trailer) The voice of God mystically appears on the radio, changing all who hear it in The Next Voice You Hear (1950), directed by William A. Wellman.

Plymouth Adventure - (Original Trailer) Spencer Tracy and Gene Tierney star in Plymouth Adventure (1952), an epic dramatization of the Pilgrams' journey to the new world on the Mayflower.

Family

Jill Robinson

Daughter

Author.

Jeremy Zimmer

Grandson

Agent. Works at United Talent Agency (UTA).

Bibliography

"Storm in the West"

Dore Schary and Sinclair Lewis (1963)

"For Special Occasions"

Dore Schary (1962)

"Case History of a Movie"

Dore Schary (1950)

Notes

He was the national chairman of B'Nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League.

He was the NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs.

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