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| 1 | Came Up Through the Ranks of MGM Jack Cummings; Film Musical Producer By MICHAEL CONNELLY, Times Staff Writer Jack Cummings, who worked his way up from a job as an MGM office boy to become producer of some of Hollywood’s more successful musicals during a 30-year career, died Friday. He was 84 and died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of heart failure, family members said. The nephew of studio mogul Louis B. Mayer, Cummings followed his uncle into the film business, working as an office boy, script clerk, assistant director and short subject director for MGM studios before producing his first feature film, “The Winning Ticket,” a comedy, in 1934. Cummings produced dozens more films during the next 30 years. Although he also made comedies and dramatic films, he is perhaps best noted for the musicals he produced, including “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” “Kiss Me Kate!” “Born to Dance,” “Broadway Melody of 1937” and “Interrupted Melody.” Other films produced by Cummings include “Go West,” “Bathing Beauty,” “The Stratton Story,” “The Teahouse of the August Moon,” “The Blue Angel” and “Can Can.” His last film was “Viva Las Vegas” in 1964. Cummings had a hand in the production of more than 100 films at MGM, from which many of the best and most enduring musicals came. On the films he produced, he was known for taking part in almost all aspects of film making, from choreography to costuming to direction. Family members said “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” was Cummings’ favorite film. The film was made on a back lot at MGM at the same time other more expensive musicals with stage-famed titles were being made in the center stage studios. However, when Cummings’ film was released, it became MGM’s biggest hit in 1954. Cummings is survived by four daughters; Carla Luisa Cummings and Cathy St. Aubin Cummings of Los Angeles, Julie Siff, of New York, and Linda Cummings of Louisville, Ky., and three grandchildren. A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m. Monday at Hillside Memorial Park. source: Connelly, Michael. "Jack Cummings; Film Musical Producer.” Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr 1989, p. 42. | Cummings, Jack (I29)
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| 2 | HENRY RIEDER Funeral services will be held today for Henry Rieder, who died here Friday after a lengthy illness. He was 72. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Abraham and Yetta Rieder, he spent his childhood in Saint John, N.B., and came to Montreal in 1910. In 1928 he joined the law firm of Campbell, McMaster, Couture, Kerry and Bruneau with which he was associated until he took ill a few years ago. Mr. Rieder was widely known as an authority on taxation and estate planning. He was a nephew of the late Louis B. Mayer, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is survived by his wife, the former Annette Shankman; a brother Joseph of Montreal; and three sisters, Bertha of Montreal and Ruth Kerman and Irene Holt of Los Angeles. The funeral will be at Paperman’s Funeral chapel at 2 p.m. today with interment at the Temple Emmanu-El cemetery on Mount Royal. source: Obituary of Henry Rieder. Montreal, Canada: The Montreal Gazette, 27 Jan 1969, p, 15. | Rieder, Henry (I36)
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| 3 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Mayer, Jerry Gershon (I15)
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| 4 | LOUIS B. MAYER RITES TO BE TODAY Actress Jeanette MacDonald, one of the many stars who attained fame under Louis B. Mayer, will sing “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life” during funeral services to be conducted for the producer today. All film studios have been asked by the Motion Picture Association to observe one minute of silence at 11:50 a.m. Services, with Rabbi Edgar Magnin officiating, will be at noon in Wilshire Boulevard Temple. Actor Spencer Tracy will read a tribute to Mr. Mayer, who died early Tuesday in UCLA Medical Center of acute anemia brought on by leukemia. He was 72. Burial will be private at the Home of Peace Cemetery. Hundreds of Hollywood’s famous are expected to attend the funeral services. source: “LOUIS B. MAYER RITES TO BE TODAY.” Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct 1957, p. 41. | Mayer, Louis B. (I1)
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| 5 | Mayer Funeral to be Tomorrow Funeral services for Jacob Mayer, father of Louis B. Mayer, will be conducted tomorrow at the Glasband & Groman mortuary. Burial will be in Beth Israel Cemetery. Mr. Mayer died Friday night. He was 83 years of age. For the past twelve years he had lived at Louis B. Mayer’s home, Santa Monica. He leaves three sons, Louis B., Rudolph W., and Jerry Mayer, and a daughter, Mrs. Ida Cummings, all of this city, as well as five grandchildren. source: “Mayer Funeral to be Tomorrow.” Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr 1930, p. 16. | Mayer, Jacob (I8)
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