Quick Facts
Biography
E. Maurice "Buddy" Adler (June 22, 1909 – July 12, 1960) was an American film producer and a former production head for 20th Century Fox studios.
Born in New York City, New York, he married actress Anita Louise Fremault (1915–1970) in 1940. They had two children together.
In 1954, his production of From Here to Eternity won the Academy Award for Best Picture and in 1956, his Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing was nominated for best picture. Adler also produced the 1956 film Bus Stop, starring Marilyn Monroe.
Awards
He was the recipient of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1957. The following year he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.
Death
Buddy Adler died of lung cancer,At the aged of 51, in Los Angeles and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His widow, who was buried there as well, died ten years later.
Selected filmography
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
- South Pacific (1958)
- A Hatful of Rain (1957)
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
- Anastasia (1956)
- Bus Stop (1956)
- The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
- The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
- The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
- The Left Hand of God (1955)
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
- House of Bamboo (1955)
- Soldier of Fortune (1955)
- Violent Saturday (1955)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Last of the Comanches (1953)
- The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)
- Saturday's Hero (1951)
- A Woman of Distinction (1950)
- Tell It to the Judge (1949)
- The Dark Past (1948)
- Quicker'n a Wink (1940)