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Joe Pasternak
Highest Rated: 100% Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Lowest Rated: 29% The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Birthday: Sep 19, 1901
Birthplace: Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary
Hungarian immigrant who came to America in his teens and worked his way up through the ranks to become an assistant director at Paramount in 1923. After producing several successful films in Europe, Pasternak revived the flagging fortunes of Universal with a series of hit musicals starring Deanna Durbin in the mid-1930s. He is also credited with discovering Judy Garland, who later starred in his musicals "Presenting Lily Mars" (1943), "In the Good Old Summertime" (1949) and "Summer Stock" (1950). Pasternak also cast Mario Lanza in "The Toast of New Orleans" (1950) and "The Great Caruso" (1951), and rejuvenated the career of Marlene Dietrich with "Destry Rides Again" (1939).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sweet Ride | Producer | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Girl Happy | Producer | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Looking for Love | Producer | - | 1964 |
| 67% | 69% | The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Producer | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | A Ticklish Affair | Producer | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Horizontal Lieutenant | Producer | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Billy Rose's Jumbo | Producer | - | 1962 |
| 57% | 60% | Please Don't Eat the Daisies | Producer | - | 1960 |
| 88% | 70% | Where the Boys Are | Producer | - | 1960 |
| 83% | 57% | Party Girl | Producer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Ten Thousand Bedrooms | Producer | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Meet Me in Las Vegas | Producer | - | 1956 |
| 40% | 46% | The Opposite Sex | Producer | - | 1956 |
| 71% | 75% | Love Me or Leave Me | Producer | - | 1955 |
| 67% | 57% | Hit the Deck | Producer | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 24% | Athena | Producer | - | 1954 |
| 57% | 75% | The Student Prince | Producer | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flame and the Flesh | Producer | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Latin Lovers | Producer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | Easy to Love | Producer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Because You're Mine | Producer | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Skirts Ahoy! | Producer | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | The Merry Widow | Producer | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Rich, Young and Pretty | Producer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | The Great Caruso | Producer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | The Strip | Producer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Duchess of Idaho | Producer | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Nancy Goes to Rio | Producer | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | The Toast of New Orleans | Producer | - | 1950 |
| 100% | 83% | Summer Stock | Producer | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | That Midnight Kiss | Producer | - | 1949 |
| 62% | 79% | In the Good Old Summertime | Producer | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Luxury Liner | Producer | - | 1948 |
| 57% | 51% | A Date With Judy | Producer | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | On an Island With You | Producer | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Three Daring Daughters | Producer | - | 1948 |
| 67% | 29% | The Unfinished Dance | Producer | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Two Sisters From Boston | Producer | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Holiday in Mexico | Producer | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Leave, No Love | Producer | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Her Highness and the Bellboy | Producer | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Thrill of a Romance | Producer | - | 1945 |
| 53% | 78% | Anchors Aweigh | Producer | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Music for Millions | Producer | - | 1944 |
| 100% | 81% | Two Girls and a Sailor | Producer | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Song of Russia | Producer | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Thousands Cheer | Producer | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | Presenting Lily Mars | Producer | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Seven Sweethearts | Producer | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | It Started With Eve | Producer | - | 1941 |
| 29% | 55% | The Flame of New Orleans | Producer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Spring Parade | Producer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Seven Sinners | Producer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | It's a Date | Producer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Producer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 73% | First Love | Producer | - | 1939 |
| 96% | 82% | Destry Rides Again | Producer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Mad About Music | Producer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | That Certain Age | Producer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Youth Takes a Fling | Producer | - | 1938 |
| 88% | 55% | 100 Men and a Girl | Producer | - | 1937 |