Allan Carr (born Allan Solomon on May 27, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, died June 29, 1999) was a American Broadway, television and film producer, and manager of actors and musicians. Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. Carr was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners. The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American Theatre and are presented Note This article does not pertain to the People's Choice Awards presented at the British Comedy Awards show in the United Kingdom, or to an awards show [1]
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Biography
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He attended Lake Forest College and Northwestern University, but his interest was always in show business. Lake Forest College, founded in 1857 is a liberal arts college located in Lake Forest Illinois. While at Northwestern, he invested $750 in the Broadway musical Ziegfeld Follies, starring Tallulah Bankhead. Tallulah Brockman Bankhead ( January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American Actress, talk-show host and That show wasn't a hit but his $1,250 investment in The Happiest Millionaire (1957) gave him the success he needed to leave school and embark upon a career in entertainment. The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 Musical film, based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J In Chicago in the 1960s he opened the Civic Theater and financed The World of Carl Sandburg starring Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, as well as Eva Le Gallienne in Mary Stuart, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and Tennessee Williams' "Garden District" featuring Cathleen Nesbitt and Diana Barrymore. Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5 1908 – October 6 1989 was an American actress of Film, Television and Theatre. Gary F Merrill ( August 2, 1915 &ndash March 5, 1990) was an American film and television Character actor whose credits included Eva Le Gallienne ( January 11, 1899 – June 3, 1991) was a well-known Actress, producer, and director, Sir William Tyrone Guthrie ( 2 July 1900 &ndash 15 May 1971) was an Anglo-Irish Tony Award -winning theatrical director Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26 1911 &ndash February 25 1983 better known as Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright who received many of the top theatrical Cathleen Nesbitt, CBE ( 24 November 1888 &ndash 2 August 1982) was an English actress of Welsh Diana Barrymore ( March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960) was an American film and stage actress. Carr worked behind the scenes at Playboy Magazine with Hugh Hefner and was a co-creator of the Playboy Penthouse television series, which in turn launched the Playboy Clubs. Playboy is an American Men's magazine, founded in Chicago Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates which has grown into Playboy Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9 1926 is an American Magazine Publisher, and best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine A Playboy Club was originally one of a chain of nightclubs owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises until 1991 with the first club opening at 116 E
Through the years, he became known as a great planner of promotional events and parties. One such event, a black-tie affair for Truman Capote, took place in an abandoned L. Truman Capote (ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti ( 30 September, 1924, New Orleans Louisiana – 25 August, 1984, Los Angeles A. jail. Carr managed a number of major film and television stars and recording artists, and produced a string of television specials for his client Ann-Margret. Ann-Margret (born April 28 1941 is a Swedish -born American actress singer [2]
Grease was the word—Film and Broadway theatre success
Producer Robert Stigwood hired him in 1975 as marketing and promotion consultant, with his first project being for the film version of the rock opera Tommy [3]. Robert Stigwood (born April 16, 1934 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian -born Impresario and entertainment entrepreneur The year 1975 in film involved some significant events Events January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft Rock operas, Concept albums Song cycles and Oratorios all differ from a conventional rock album which usually includes songs that are unrelated to each The film was a hit and he expanded his involvement for his next film, re-editing and overdubbing a low-budget foreign film about a real-life disaster. The result was Survival, and that film's surprise success in 1976 made him a wealthy man and gave him clout at Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California.
In 1977, Stigwood asked him to produce the ad campaign for Saturday Night Fever. Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated He turned the film's premiere into a star-studded television special. It worked so well that Stigwood gave him Grease (1978). Grease is a film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Jim Jacobs ' and Warren Casey 's musical, Grease The year 1978 in film involved some significant events Top grossing films (U Carr not only helmed the ad campaign and produced the premiere party and television special for Grease, he wrote the screen adaptation and produced the film for six million dollars, casting his client Olivia Newton-John. Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE (born September 26 1948) is a Grammy Award -winning and Golden Globe -nominated English-born It became the highest grossing film of the year, the most popular movie musical of all time [4], and one of the highest grossing films in history at just under one hundred million dollars in its first release. (It has since gone on to make as much in rentals, and as much again in a 1998 re-release. ) The film was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and won two People's Choice Awards, for Best Picture and Best Musical Picture. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner Note This article does not pertain to the People's Choice Awards presented at the British Comedy Awards show in the United Kingdom, or to an awards show That year he even appeared in a role on the final season of the Angie Dickinson television series Police Woman. Angie Dickinson (born September 30, 1931) is a Golden Globe -winning American television and Film actress, perhaps Stigwood and Carr would work on several other films, including 1978 Oscar-winner The Deer Hunter. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Deer Hunter is a 1978 war Drama film about a trio of Rusyn American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the
The following year, 1979, he produced the Village People film musical Can't Stop the Music, a production which, while campy, steered clear of addressing the band members' presumed homosexuality from the script. Village People are a concept Disco group formed in the late 1970s For the soundtrack album see Can't Stop the Music (album. For the title song see Can't Stop the Music (song. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. Again he orchestrated a lavish series of premieres and a television special co-starring his friends Hefner and Cher. Cher ( IPA: /ʃɛr/ born Cherilyn Sarkisian, May 20 1946 Released in 1980 after the crash of the disco craze, the film was a major flop, and Carr won the first annual Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Film, in 1981. Undaunted, he went on to produce Grease 2 (1982) which, while nowhere near the hit of its predecessor, was not a financial loss. Grease 2 is the 1982 Sequel to the 1978 smash hit Grease. The movie was strongly criticized by many as derivative
In Paris for the premiere of Grease, a friend had dragged him to see a straight play about a gay couple, La Cage aux Folles. A straight play is a a traditional theatrical production While music is one of Aristotle's six elements of Theatre, a straight play does not usually include singing Now, Carr was ready to face the gay theme head on. Returning to Broadway he produced a musical version of the 1973 play, which had since been made into a French film (and later an American film called The Birdcage). The Birdcage is a 1996 Comedy film directed by Mike Nichols, and stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman With a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, the show opened in 1983 and was a huge success, running for five years and 1,761 performances. Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award winning American Actor, Playwright, and Screenwriter. Jerry Herman (born July 10, 1931) is an American Composer / Lyricist of the Broadway Musical theater. Nominated in 1984 for eight Drama Desk Awards and eight Tony Awards, the show won three Drama Desks and an impressive six Tonys, including a "Best Musical" win for Carr. The Drama Desk Award, created in 1955, is an award which recognizes shows produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-off-Broadway, and The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American Theatre and are presented
Snow White and the Academy Awards
His reputation for hosting expensive and lavish parties and creating spectacular production numbers led the producers of the 61st Annual Academy Awards to hire him to create the show based on his promise that he would turn it around from the dry, dull show it had been in previous years. The 61st Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. Promising "the antithesis of tacky" it turned out to be a disaster culminating in the infamous pairing of Snow White (played by Eileen Bowman) and Rob Lowe singing "Proud Mary". Snow White (in Low German Sneewittchen; in High German Schneeweißchen) is the title character of a Fairy tale known from many countries in Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American Actor. " Proud Mary " is a song written by American singer and Guitarist John Fogerty.
The telecast also featured a production number featuring what was introduced as "the youth of Hollywood", with all the participants in their 20s or early 30s. The show became a laughing-stock and has gone down in history one of the worst moments in awards show and television history.
Adding to the misery, the Walt Disney Company sued for illegal use of Snow White's image. Carr's reputation in Hollywood never fully recovered, although his decision to change the award announcement from "And the winner is. . . " to "And the Oscar goes to. . . " has become the norm, not just for the Oscars, but for awards shows in general.
Later work
That same year Carr helmed the project Goya. . . A Life in Song with Freddie Gershon and CBS Records, a concept album and, later, an off-Broadway musical theater production written by Maury Yeston (Nine) and featuring Plácido Domingo as artist Francisco Goya. Maury Yeston (born October 23, 1945) is an American composer lyricist educator and musicologist In mathematics Nine is a Composite number, its proper Divisors being 1 and 3. WikipediaWikiProject Opera#Infoboxes --> José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE (born January 21, 1941) better Still in development for a full Broadway production, the music has been recorded by Domingo with Dionne Warwick in English and Gloria Estefan in Spanish, and a version of the duet "Till I Loved You" was a top 40 single for Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson. Dionne Warwick (born Marie Dionne Warrick on December 12, 1940) is an acclaimed five-time Grammy Award -winning singer actress activist Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Fajardo on September 1, 1957) is a Cuban American singer and songwriter " Till I Loved You " was another track to be recorded by Barbra Streisand. Barbra Streisand (ˈstraɪsænd "STRY-sand" born April 24 1942 is an American Singer, Film and Theatre Actress Don Johnson (born Donnie Wayne Johnson, December 15 1949 Personal life Relationships and family At 22 Johnson began a four-year liaison
Carr continued his work in theater, sponsoring the 1995 Royal Shakespeare Company productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and Much Ado About Nothing at Washington's Kennedy Center and Broadway's Gershwin Theatre, earning 10 Tony nominations between them including one more for Carr. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand based on the life of the real Cyrano de Bergerac. Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. First published in 1600 it is likely to have been first performed in the autumn or winter Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (on the building itself called the John F The George Gershwin Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 222 West 51st Street in midtown- Manhattan in the Paramount Plaza
Carr had returned to Paramount Pictures to handle the re-release of Grease in 1998, which included producing a VH1 television special of the twentieth anniversary Hollywood "premiere" screening and party, and special edition re-releases of the video, DVD, and soundtrack album. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Grease is a film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Jim Jacobs ' and Warren Casey 's musical, Grease VH1 (known as VH-1 Video Hits One from 1985 to 1994 and VH1 Music First until 2003) is an American Cable television Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is
Management career
In 1966, he founded the talent agency Allan Carr Enterprises, managing the actors Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers, Rosalind Russell, Dyan Cannon, Melina Mercouri and Marlo Thomas. Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz June 3, 1925) is an American film actor Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers ( 8 September 1925 &ndash 24 July 1980) was a British Rosalind Russell ( June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an award-winning American Actress of stage and Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen on January 4 1937) is an American Film and Television actress, Melina Mercouri ( Greek: Μελίνα Μερκούρη, born Maria Amalia Mercouri) ( Athens Greece, October 18, 1920 Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Some of the other entertainment figures whose careers he managed were the previously mentioned Ann-Margret, Nancy Walker, Marvin Hamlisch, Joan Rivers, Peggy Lee, "Mama" Cass Elliot, Paul Anka, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Nancy Walker ( May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American Actress in stage screen and television Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American Composer. Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky; June 8, 1933) is an American Comedian, Actress, Talk show Peggy Lee ( May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American Jazz and popular music singer and Songwriter Cass Elliot ( September 19 1941 – July 29 1974) born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted American Singer, best Paul Mustapha Abdi Anka, ( Arabic: بول مصطفى عبدي أنكا OC (born 30 July 1941, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a The Four Seasons (known off and on since 1967 as Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons - although not shown that way on any of their hit records is an American Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American Musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert He is credited as having discovered numerous celebrities including clients Olivia Newton-John, Mark Hamill, Michelle Pfeiffer, [5], Steve Guttenberg [6], and Lisa Hartman [7]. Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE (born September 26 1948) is a Grammy Award -winning and Golden Globe -nominated English-born Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American Actor, Comedian and Voice actor. Michelle Marie Pfeiffer ( IPA: /mɪˈʃɛl ˈfаɪfɜr/ born April 29 1958 is an American Actress. Steven Robert "Steve" Guttenberg (born August 24 1958) is an American film and television Actor. Lisa Hartman (born June 1, 1956 in Houston Texas) is an actress.
Production career
Allan was a film producer for numerous movies, including:
- C. C. and Company (1970)
- Grease (1978)
- Can't Stop the Music (1980)
- Grease 2 (1982)
- Where the Boys Are '84 (1984)
- Cloak & Dagger (1984)
Death
Allan Carr died on June 29, 1999 in Beverly Hills, California from liver cancer at the age of 62. Grease is a film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Jim Jacobs ' and Warren Casey 's musical, Grease For the soundtrack album see Can't Stop the Music (album. For the title song see Can't Stop the Music (song. Grease 2 is the 1982 Sequel to the 1978 smash hit Grease. The movie was strongly criticized by many as derivative Where the Boys Are '84 is a 1984 remake of the 1960 teen sex comedy film Where the Boys Are, starring Lisa Hartman, Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 Film directed by Richard Franklin starring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC also called hepatoma) is a primary malignancy (cancer of the Liver. At the time of his death, he split his time between his homes in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, and was working on bringing Ken Ludwig's Tony-winning comedy Lend Me a Tenor to Australia and the UK, and was preparing a new Broadway show, The New Musical Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, approximately 111 miles (177 km east of Los Angeles and 136 miles (225 km northeast of Ken Ludwig is an American Playwright and Theatre director. Born in York Pennsylvania, Ludwig was educated at Haverford College Lend Me a Tenor is a Tony Award winning play by Ken Ludwig. The play has been translated into sixteen languages and produced in twenty-five countries [8]
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