Charles K. Feldman


Producer

About

Also Known As
Charles Gould
Birth Place
New York City, New York, USA
Born
April 26, 1904
Died
May 25, 1968
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

Leading talent agent who turned to producing in the 1940s....

Family & Companions

Jean Howard
Wife
Former actor, photographer. Married in 1935; divorced in 1948; continued to cohabitate until his 1968 death; published book of celebrity photographs she shot from the 1930s on; published photo-essay coffee-table book, "Travels with Cole Porter" (1991); married musician Tony Santoro; died on March 21, 2000 at age 89.
Clotilde Barot
Wife
Married on April 14, 1968.

Notes

Talent chairman and member of executive committee for the Hollywood Victory Committee.

Second vice president of the USO Camp Shows.

Biography

Leading talent agent who turned to producing in the 1940s.

Life Events

1928

Set up a law practice in Los Angeles with Hollywood clientele; practiced law four years

1932

Entered talent agency business at Famous Artists; later named president, Famous Artists Corp. And Famous Artists Talent Agency

Videos

Movie Clip

Group, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) More Pantheistic After the rushed wedding of a fellow 1933 graduate of an un-named New England ladies' college, Dottie (Joan Hackett) with Dick (Richard Mulligan), artist and bohemian pal of the groom, in The Group, 1966, Sidney Lumet's film from Vassar grad Mary McCarthy's novel.
Group, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Landlord, Fill The Flowing Bowl Somewhat bawdy English traditional song Landlord, Fill The Flowing Bowl among several choral pieces opening Sidney Lumet's The Group, 1966, introducing classmates Joan Hackett, Candice Bergen, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet et al, and their valedictorian Kathleen Widdoes.
Group, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Not To The Manor Born New England ladies' college graduates led by "Lakey" (Candice Bergen) at the speedily arranged New York wedding of classmate Kay (Joanna Pettet) to aspiring playwright Harald (Larry Hagman) in Sidney Lumet's The Group, 1966, from the Mary McCarthy novel.
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Napoleonic Code Having ejected her sister, Blanche (Vivien Leigh) encourages her New Orleans brother-in-law Stanley (Marlon Brando) to continue with his inquiries about her affairs, Elia Kazan directing, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, 1952.
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Which One Is He? Travel-weary Blanche (Vivien Leigh) finds younger sister Stella (Kim Hunter) at the bowling alley, where she points out husband Stanley (Marlon Brando) early in Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire, 1952.
Seven Year Itch, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) With A Married Man Married Richard (Tom Ewell) with the wife out of town, receives the bubbly new "girl" from upstairs, with her bottle of birthday champagne and ditzy blonde reasoning, in Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch, 1955.
Seven Year Itch, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I Had To Ring Your Bell Tom Ewell as Manhattan temporary bachelor Richard Sherman, in his original role from George Axelrod's original play, musing when the new girl upstairs turns out to be Marilyn Monroe, early in Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch, 1955.
Seven Year Itch, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Cools The Ankles Billy Wilder's famous contrivance with Marilyn Monroe (as the never-named "girl" from upstairs) on the subway grate, with married Richard (Tom Ewell), who's wrangled an innocent date, in The Seven Year Itch, 1955.
Red River (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Red Shoes Dunson (John Wayne) and Matt (Montgomery Clift) visiting cowhand Dan (Harry Carey Jr., also singing) as the crew (Walter Brennan, Noah Beery Jr. et al) worry about spooking the herd, in Howard Hawks' Red River, 1948.
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1952) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Be Stanley Stanley (Marlon Brando) arrives home from bowling to meet sister-in-law Blanche (Vivien Leigh) for the first time in his New Orleans apartment, in Elia Kazan's production of Tennesee Willliams' A Streetcar Named Desire, 1952.
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Elysian Fields Alex North's booming, jazzy score for the opening credits to Elia Kazan's celebrated A Streetcar Named Desire, 1952, starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, from Tennessee Williams' play.
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Old Fashioned Ideals On an official date, widow Stella (Vivien Leigh) and working class bachelor Mitch (Karl Malden) try to discern each other's intentions, in Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire, 1952, from Tennessee Williams' play.

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Family

Samuel Feldman
Father
Adopted.

Companions

Jean Howard
Wife
Former actor, photographer. Married in 1935; divorced in 1948; continued to cohabitate until his 1968 death; published book of celebrity photographs she shot from the 1930s on; published photo-essay coffee-table book, "Travels with Cole Porter" (1991); married musician Tony Santoro; died on March 21, 2000 at age 89.
Clotilde Barot
Wife
Married on April 14, 1968.

Bibliography

Notes

Talent chairman and member of executive committee for the Hollywood Victory Committee.

Second vice president of the USO Camp Shows.