Academy Award-winning producer and former production head for 20th Century Fox, Maurice "Buddy" Adler produced some of Hollywood's most beloved films during his 20-year career. The son of the famed elevator-shoe salesman, Adler started out writing advertisements for his father. He then began penning short magazine stories until 1935 when he began writing short films for MGM. His MGM short Quicker 'n a Wink(1940) won the Oscar for "Best Short Subject." During WW II, he served as a lieutenant-colonel in the Army Pictorial Service. He went on to work as a producer for Columbia in 1947. Six years later he won another Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953). In 1956, he succeeded Darryl Zanuck and became the head of Fox, a position he held until he died during the preproduction work on the ill-fated Cleopatra (1963).
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South Pacific
Producer |
1958 | |||
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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Producer |
1958 | |||
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A Hatful of Rain
Producer |
1957 | |||
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Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Producer |
1957 | |||
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Anastasia
Producer |
1956 | |||
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Bus Stop
Producer |
1956 | |||
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The Bottom of the Bottle
Producer |
1956 | |||
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The Lieutenant Wore Skirts
Producer |
1956 | |||
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Producer |
1956 | |||
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House of Bamboo
Producer |
1955 | |||
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Producer |
1955 | |||
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Soldier of Fortune
Producer |
1955 | |||
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The Left Hand of God
Producer |
1955 | |||
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Violent Saturday
Producer |
1955 | |||
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From Here to Eternity
Producer |
1953 | |||
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Salome
Producer |
1953 | |||
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Last of the Comanches
Producer |
1952 | |||
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Paula
Producer |
1952 | |||
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Saturday's Hero
Producer |
1951 | |||
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The Harlem Globetrotters
Producer |
1951 | |||
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A Woman of Distinction
Producer |
1950 | |||
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No Sad Songs for Me
Producer |
1950 | |||
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Tell It to the Judge
Producer |
1949 | |||
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The Dark Past
Producer |
1948 | |||
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How to Hold Your Husband - Back
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Wedding Bills
Screen Story, Screenwriter |
1940 |



