Joe Pasternak

Joe Pasternak
Pasternak in 1957
Born	József Paszternák September 19, 1901 (1901-09-19) Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary
Died	September 13, 1991 (1991-09-14) (aged 89) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
Nationality	American
Occupation	Film producer
Years active	1929–1968
Spouse	Dorothy Darrell (m. 1942)
Children	4

Joseph Herman Pasternak (born József Paszternák; September 19, 1901 – September 13, 1991) was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther Williams' films. He produced Judy Garland's final MGM film, Summer Stock, which was released in 1950, and some of Gene Kelly’s early breakthrough roles. Pasternak worked in the film industry for 45 years, from the later silent era until shortly past the end of the classical Hollywood cinema in the early 1960s.