Merv Adelson

Executive, Producer

About

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Also Known As

Mervyn Lee Adelson

Birth Place

Los Angeles, California, USA

Born

October 23, 1929

Filmography

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Breathless (1980)

Executive Producer

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)

Executive Producer

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

The Choirboys (1977)

The Long Way Home (1997)

Photos & Videos

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Scary Movie (1991) — (Movie Clip) I Walked With A Zombie/End Credits

Scary Movie (1991) — (Movie Clip) Abandon Hope All Y’all

Family & Companions

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Gail Kenaston

Wife

Interior designer. Adopted daughter of Billie Dove; died on February 15, 1999: divorced.

Barbara Walters

Wife

Newscaster. Married on May 10, 1986; divorced.

Biography

Filmography

Producer (Feature Film)

Breathless (1980)

Executive Producer

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)

Executive Producer

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

The Choirboys (1977)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Long Way Home (1997)

Life Events

1953

President, Markettown Supermarket and Builders Emporium, Las Vegas

1958

Managing partner, Paradise Developing, La Vegas

1962

President, Realty Holdings

1977

Produced first feature, "Twilight's Last Gleaming"

1978

Executive produced first feature, "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe"

1986

Named chairman, board of directors, CEO, Lorimar Telepictures Corp., Culver City, CA

Photo Collections

The Big Chill - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for The Big Chill (1983), starring Kevin Kline, JoBeth Williams, William Hurt, Glenn Close, and Jeff Goldblum. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.

Videos

Scary Movie (1991) — (Movie Clip) I Walked With A Zombie/End Credits Not a spoiler in that it begins after the action, director Daniel Erickson rolls end credits with a 1981 original song by fellow-Austinite Roky Erickson (of 13th Floor Elevators fame), named for the 1943 Val Lewton RKO classic, wrapping up the quirky Texas indy Scary Movie, 1991.

Scary Movie (1991) — (Movie Clip) Abandon Hope All Y’all After an unrelated opening anecdote suggesting horror, the original low-rent Austin, Texas thriller brings us Halloween scenes and a haunted fun-house under construction, Ev Lunning the sheriff, Mark Voges, a credited co-writer, the carpenter Jerry, 22-year old Daniel Erickson directing, Scary Movie, 1991, with a Roky Erickson song briefly in the background.

Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Awful Quiet... Establishing the trials of family life in the city, plus mother Kate (Doris Day) in black negligee, with sons (Charles Herbert, Flip Mark, Baby Gellert, Stanley Livingston), the opening of Please Don't Eat The Daisies, 1960, co-starring David Niven, from the Jean Kerr book.

Big Chill, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Cold World Out There Together after the funeral of a college friend, Mary Kay Place is a lawyer, Jeff Goldblum a writer, Tom Berenger a TV actor, Kevin Kline and Glenn Close their hosts, Jobeth Williams and druggie William Hurt their pals, in Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, 1983.

Big Chill, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Still Evolving Arising the morning after the funeral of their college friend, Jobeth Williams and Tom Berenger go shopping, Glenn Close and Mary Kay Place sort clothes, and William Hurt, as recreational drug enthusiast Nick, finds one of them new-fangled video cameras, in Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, 1983.

Big Chill, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) I Told Him He Was Wasting His Life Rolling Stones' music from the church to the grave of their suicide-victim friend, mourners William Hurt and Mary Kay Place, Jeff Goldblum and Tom Berenger with Meg Tilly, Jobeth Williams with husband Don Galloway, who's not one of the crowd, early in Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, 1983.

Big Chill, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) This Is One Of Those Times After the music-driven opening in which all learn of the death by suicide of a college friend, gathering for the funeral are Kevin Kline, Tom Berenger, Jeff Goldblum, Meg Tilly, Glenn Close, Mary Kay Place, Jobeth Williams, James Gillis the preacher, in Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, 1983.

Big Chill, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Ain't Too Proud To Beg Dining the evening after the funeral of suicide victim friend Alex, friends (Glenn Close, Jobeth Williams, Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, Kevin Kline, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Meg Tilly) do the dishes to a Temptations' song, a popular scene from Lawerene Kasdan's The Big Chill, 1983.

Meet Me In Las Vegas (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Frankie And Johnny From the last big number, which MGM boss Dore Schary reportedly had to be convinced to shoot, a Sammy Davis Jr. vocal, a special lyric by Sammy Cahn, choreography by Hermes Pan, Cyd Charisse as ballet dancer Maria gone full vamp, with Casse Jaeger and William Chatham, in Meet Me In Las Vegas, 1956.

Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Us Broads Own The World On location at Sardi’s, Broadway, David Niven as professor turned-critic Mackay receives angry and publicity-minded performer Deborah (Janis Paige), then his wife Kate (Doris Day) who advises him to take his medicine, early in Please Don’t Eat The Daisies, 1960, from the Jean Kerr book.

Loot (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Truscott Of The Yard Blinding entrance by Richard Attenborough as "Inspector Truscott," undertaker (Aubrey Woods) fretting, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder) making off with the coffin, in Loot, 1970, from the Joe Orton play.

Mary Mary (1963) -- (Movie Clip) A Very Plain Girl Returning to her ex-husband's temporarily vacant New York apartment after dinner with his actor friend Dirk (Michael Rennie), Mary (Debbie Reynolds) remains evasive, in Mary Mary, 1963, from the Jean Kerr play.

Big Chill, The - (Re-issue Trailer) A friend's death brings together a group of former college activists in The Big Chill (1983) starring Glenn Close, William Hurt and Kevin Kline.

Color Purple, The - (Original Trailer) Eleven Oscar nominations went to Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple (1985).

Silverado - (Original Trailer) Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, John Cleese and Jeff Goldblum are just a few of the stars in Lawrence Kasdan's western Silverado (1985).

Family

Nathan Adelson

Father

Pearl Adelson

Mother

Ellen Adelson

Daughter

By previous marriage.

Gary Adelson

Son

Executive, producer. By previous marriage.

Andrew Adelson

Son

By previous marriage.

Companions

Gail Kenaston

Wife

Interior designer. Adopted daughter of Billie Dove; died on February 15, 1999: divorced.

Barbara Walters

Wife

Newscaster. Married on May 10, 1986; divorced.

Bibliography

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