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Sam Jaffe was born May 21, 1901. At different points in his career, he was an agent, a producer and a studio executive. He began as an office boy for Paramount- Famous Players-Lasky Company where he worked his way up through the ranks to become the executive in charge of production. In the early 1930s he worked at Columbia Pictures briefly before leaving to start his own talent agency. He successfully represented several stars of the era, including Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Frederick March , David Niven, Zero Mostel, Richard Burton, and Stanley Kubrick, until the 1950s when his business was negatively affected by investigations of his many of his clients by Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommitte on Investigations . In 1959, he moved to London and became a film producer and a well known collector of modern artModern Art is a general term, used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. Recent art production is more often called contemporary art). Modern art refers to a new approach to art where it was no longe. Jaffe died January 10January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in leap years). Events 49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signaled civil war. 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo. 1776 Thomas Paine publishes, 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri. Partial Filmography
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Jaffe, Sam
Jaffe, Sam
Jaffe, Sam
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