Mark Hellinger
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Mark Hellinger (March 21, 1903 – December 21, 1947) was primarily known as a New York theatre critic and reviewer. He produced a number of films, the last of which is The Naked City (1948), a black-and-white film noir for which he also provided the narration.
Hellinger also provided the story for the classic 1939 Jimmy Cagney/Raoul Walsh gangster movie The Roaring Twenties. He based the story on his own experiences during the turbulent decade. In his onscreen foreword to the film, he writes:
| “ | It may come to pass that, at some distant date, we will be confronted with another period similar to the one depicted in this photoplay. If that happens, I pray that the events, as dramatized here, will be remembered. In this film, the characters are composites of people I knew, and the situations are those that actually occurred. Bitter or sweet, most memories become precious as the years move on. This film is a memory - and I am grateful for it.
Mark Hellinger |
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Hellinger and his wife Gladys Glad, a cast member of the Ziegfeld Follies, are interred in a private mausoleum at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York.
The Mark Hellinger Theatre (now the Times Square Church) in New York City was named for him.
[edit] Selected films produced
- The Naked City (1948) (producer)
- Brute Force (1947) (producer)
- The Killers (1946) (producer)
- High Sierra (1941) (associate producer)
- They Drive by Night (1940) (associate producer)
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