Big Ideas (film)
Big Ideas is a 1993 TV movie, touted as" From the Producers of Blue Heelers".
Jack Cummings (director)
John" Jack" Cummings( February 16, 1905 – April 28, 1989) was an American film producer and director.
He was best known for being a leading producer at MGM.
He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern.
Cummings spent most of his career at his uncle Louis B. Mayer's studio, Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, where he began work in the 1920s.
Mayer started his nephew out as an office boy and expected him to work his way up through the ranks.
Cummings became a staff producer at MGM in 1934, where he worked in the B-feature unit for two years.
In 1936, he produced the extravagant Cole Porter musical" Born to Dance", which established his reputation as a respected producer.
Cummings remained at MGM even after his uncle was fired from the studio in 1951, working with talent such as the Marx Brothers, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and Fred Astaire and producing some of the era's best- known musicals, including 1953's" Kiss Me Kate" and" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in 1954, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
He left MGM to become an independent producer affiliated with Twentieth Century- Fox and produced the 1959 remake of" The Blue Angel" and the 1960 movie version of the Abe Burrows- Cole Porter Broadway musical" Can- Can."
In 1964, he returned to MGM one last time to produce the Elvis Presley musical" Viva Las Vegas".
Other credits included" Easy to WedIt Happened in Brooklyn Three Little Words The Last Time I Saw ParisInterrupted Melody", and" The Teahouse of the August Moon".
Gene Reynolds
Gene Reynolds( born Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal, April 4, 1923) is an American actor, television writer, director, and producer.
He was one of the producers of the TV series" M* A* S* H".
Neil Kopp
Neil Kopp( born 1979) is an American film, commercial and music video producer best known for his work on the films" Old Joy"( 2006) and" Paranoid Park"( 2007).
Henry Blanke
Henry Blanke (December 30, 1901 – May 28, 1981) was a German-born film producer who also worked as an assistant director, supervisor, writer, and production manager.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for "The Nun's Story" (1959).
Jim Koch
C. James Koch( born May 27, 1949) is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company, the producers of Samuel Adams beer.
Old Acquaintance
Old Acquaintance is a 1943 drama film made by Warner Bros.
It was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by Henry Blanke with Jack L. Warner as executive producer from a screenplay by John Van Druten, Lenore Coffee and Edmund Goulding based on Van Druten's play.
The film starred Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins with Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Roscoe Karns and Anne Revere.
Ann Codee
Ann Codee( born Anna Marie Vannuefflin, 5 March 1890 – 18 May 1961) was a Belgian actress with numerous hit films on her résumé, such as" Can- CanKiss Me Kate", and" Interrupted Melody".
Born in Antwerp, Belgium, her name was sometimes found in newspapers as Anna Cody.
Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody is a 1955 biographical musical film in CinemaScope and Technicolor, which tells the story of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence's struggle with polio.
The film was released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, directed by Curtis Bernhardt, and produced by Jack Cummings from a screenplay by Marjorie Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig.
The operatic sequences were staged by Vladimir Rosing.
The film stars Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, and Cecil Kellaway.
The singing voice of Lawrence was provided by Eileen Farrell; Farrell also appears on screen as a student struggling to hit a high note in a scene with the singing teacher Mme. Gilly( Ann Codee).
Old Acquaintance (disambiguation)
Old Acquaintance may refer to:

Question: Are the producers of films Old Acquaintance and Interrupted Melody both from the same country?
Answer: no