OBITUARY
MR. IRVING THALBERG
(Received September 15; 1.40 p.m.) HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 14. The death has occurred, of .Mr, Irving Thalberg, from lobular pneumonia, after a week's illness. "
Mr. Irving Thalberg was born in New York in 1899 and was one of the best known of film directors, being the "ace" on the Meixo-Goldwyn-Mayer list. He first attracted wide attention with such pictures as "The Storm" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," with Lon Chaney'in the cast, and added to ,these "Ben Hur," "The Big Parade,1' "Broadway Melody," "Grand Hotel," "Rip, Tide," . and ."The,. Barretts o£ Wimpole Street?' His most'fecent films included such successful ; productions as "The Merry Widow," "What Every Woman , Knows," "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," "No More Ladies," "China Seas," "Mutiny on the Bounty," and "A Night at the Opera," and,,after finishing "Romeo and Juliet," he was working on a screen version of Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth." He married Miss Norma Shearer in 1928, and there are two children, Irving and Catherine.
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Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 10
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