George Hirliman (1901–1952) was a film producer.
Biography
Hirliman was born September 8, 1901, in
Fort Lee,
New Jersey
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.
He married
Eleanor Hunt
Eleanor Hunt (January 10, 1910 – June 12, 1981) was an American film actress. She starred opposite John Wayne in the 1934 '' Blue Steel''.
Personal life
She was married to actor Rex Lease for "a few months" before their September 1931 ...
, an actress. The couple adopted
Georgelle Hirliman in 1936, and later gave birth to daughter Kathy Hirliman in 1942.
He started his career at the Life Photo Film Corporation as an office boy and worked his way up to film director at Hirlagraph Motion Pictures, the largest film lab at that time.
In 1924, his production company purchased the
Solax Studios and renovated the two stages, and studios. The studio building was later destroyed in a fire.
When he moved to Hollywood, he worked five years at Consolidated Films working on production and financing. During his tenure there, he made 30 feature films.
In 1935, Hirliman produced ''De la Sarten a Fuego / From the Frying Pan into the Fire'', an English and duel Spanish production.
In 1936, he produced ''
Reefer Madness
''Reefer Madness'' (originally made as ''Tell Your Children'' and sometimes titled ''The Burning Question'', ''Dope Addict'', ''Doped Youth'', and ''Love Madness'') is a 1936 American propaganda film about drugs, revolving around the melodramat ...
''
and a series of four "G-Man" films starring his wife.
In 1936, he patented
Hirlicolor. It was a two-color process that didn't need additional lighting and any color film lab could develop. During this time, he worked with
Consolidated Film Industries
Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company and was one of the leading film laboratories in the Los Angeles area for many decades. CFI processed negatives and made prints for motion pictures and television. The ...
.
In 1941, he was working at the Colonnade Picture Studio in Miami.
In 1943, Hirliman's Film Classics contracted Hal Roach Studios to re-release much of the studios films where they also re-edited the films and threw away the title sequences.
He died on March 30, 1952, in
New York City
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,
New York.
Selected filmography
*
''Men o’ War'' (1929)
* ''
Pack Up Your Troubles'' (1932)
* ''
Busy Bodie''s (1933)
* ''From the Frying Pan into the Fire'' / ''De la Sarten a Fuego'' (1935)
* ''
Captain Calamity'' / ''El Capitan Tormenta'' (1935)
* ''
Reefer Madnes''
s (1936)
* ''
Yellow Cargo'' (1936)
* ''
The Devil on Horseback'' (1936)
* ''El Carnival del Diablo'' (1937)
* ''
Navy Spy'' (1937)
* ''
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the we ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Bank Alarm
''Bank Alarm'' is a 1937 American crime film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt in the last of their four film G-Man film series.
Plot
A G-Man (Conrad Nagel) and his girlfriend (Eleanor Hunt) follow a trail ...
'' (1937)
* ''El Dia Que Me Quieres'' (1938)
References
External links
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American film producers
1901 births
1952 deaths