Talk:Harold Mirisch

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Name: Harold Mirisch

Birth date:May 4, 1907

Birth place: New York City, NY

Death date: December 5, 1968

Death place: Beverly Hills, CA

Occupation: Motion Picture Executive

Spouse: Lottie (nee Mandell) Mirisch

Harold Mirisch (1907–1968) was an American motion picture executive.

Biography

Early Life:

He was born on May 4, 1907 in New York, New York. He was the brother of Irving Mirisch, Marvin Mirisch, and Walter Mirisch. His father was Max Mirisch and his mother was Flora Glasshut Mirisch and he was the stepson of Josephine Urbach Mirisch.

Career: At the age of 14, Mirisch worked as an office boy at Warner Brothers in New York City. In 1928, at the age of 21, he married Lottie Mandell and they left New York to live in Memphis, Tennessee, where he managed the Warner Theatre. Later he rose in the Warner Brothers ranks, finally managing their circuit of theaters, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1942, he joined R.K.O. Theaters in New York City and was in charge of buying and booking films for their entire national circuit. In 1947, he moved to Los Angeles and joined his brother, Walter at Allied Artists Pictures, a film production company, where he served as Vice President. He raised his children, Maxine Mirisch Segal and Robert Mirisch in Los Angeles. In 1957, he left Allied Artists and together with his brothers, Walter and Marvin, he co-founded The Mirisch Company, one of the leading independent production companies of its time. He served as the president for the remainder of his life.

The Mirisch Company produced films that won 28 Academy Awards. Their productions included: "Some Like It Hot"(1959), "The Horse Soldiers"(1959), "The Apartment"(1960)(Best Picture Academy Award), "The Magnificent Seven"(1960) which spawned three sequels, a television movie and television series; "West Side Story"(1961)(Best Picture Academy Award), "The Great Escape"(1963), "The Pink Panther"(1963), which spawned sequels and a television series, "A Shot in the Dark"(1964), "Hawaii"(1966), "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming", "In the Heat of the Night"(1967)(Best Picture Academy Award), "The Thomas Crown Affair"(1968).

His legacy is the films of The Mirisch Company, his 2 children, his 5 grandchildren and his great grandchild.

Death:

Prior to his death on December 5, 1968, in Beverly Hills, Mirisch lived in Palm Springs, California.


 * Declined. Request is dated and therefore no longer considered an improvement. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 16:42, 14 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I wanted to reopen this request, but after an attempt by the user to make the changes himself, I now have to refactor my reasoning for my initial decline. As stated by, the content that is currently on the article is properly sourced, and changing the article to your version, as you already saw by the reversion made by said user, would take out content that is already properly sourced. If you would like, you can come back with a different request that incorporates the references that already exist and we will consider options from there. Thank you for your request, nonetheless. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 05:37, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Changes requested
I requested changes in the beginning of March. I know the requests are backed up. I was just wondering how much longer it might take for the changes to be implemented.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lmassistant (talk • contribs) 17:00, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

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