Mark Hellinger

Mark Hellinger was born on Mar 21, 1903 in USA. Mark Hellinger's big-screen debut came with Night Court directed by W.S. Van Dyke in 1932. Mark Hellinger is known for The Naked City directed by Jules Dassin, Barry Fitzgerald stars as Lt. Dan Muldoon and Howard Duff as Frank Niles. The most recent award Mark Hellinger achieved is Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The upcoming new movie Mark Hellinger plays is Riding High which will be released on Apr 12, 1950.

Mark Hellinger made his name as a New York theater critic and as one of the first of the nationally known "Broadway columnists", a craft which his friend Walter Winchell was the most famous practitioner. Born on March 21, 1903, Hellinger was the embodiment of the hard-boiled, hard-living, hard-drinking journalist that became a stereotype of the early talkies. Fittingly, he married Gladys Glad, a beautiful cast member of the Ziegfeld Follies, a series of lavish Broadway revues by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. that glorified the American girl.Hellinger, like the other great Broadway columnist and raconteur 'Damon Runyon', was a purveyor of stories of New York's demimonde, filled with wise-guy jargon. His stories were different from Runyon's, which relied on mythic archetypes, as they featured realistic depictions of actual people. Many of Hellinger's characters were composites of people he met on the Broadway beat.The realistic cant of Hellinger's stories, as well as their Broadway background made him a natural for the movies. He contributed to the screenplay of Night Court (1932), and Frank Capra's La course de Broadway Bill (1934) was based on one of his stories. His story "The World Moves On" was adapted for the screen as Les fantastiques années 20 (1939) directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. It was a crime tale whose characters were all based on actual criminals and their fellow travelers during the wide-open era of Prohibition. The success of the film led Warner Brothers to make Hellinger an associate producer.Although successful, Hellinger grew increasingly unhappy at Warner Brothers over screen credit (specifically on Bogie's Rendez-vous à minuit (1940)) and assorted personal and professional conflicts with Jack L. Warner. 20th Century Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck hired Hellinger away from Warner Brothers in 1941, making him a real producer. Hellinger returned to Warner Brothers before striking out as an independent at Universal, where he produced three seminal and classics of film noir: Les tueurs (1946) (based on a short-story by fellow newspaperman Ernest Hemingway most recently glossed in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence (2005)), the prison drama Les Démons de la liberté (1947), and the paradigmatic Big City police drama, La cité sans voiles (1948) , for which Hellinger also voiced the narration.On December 21, 1947, just as Hellinger was entering into a new independent production company (one of the partners was Humphrey Bogart) he died suddenly at the age of 44. He was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York. A Broadway Theatre in New York was named for him from 1949 - 1989. The theater has been renamed the Times Square Church.