Jack Cummings

Known for ProductionBorn 1905-02-16Died 1989-04-28New Brunswick, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John "Jack" Cummings (February 16, 1905 – April 28, 1989) was an American film producer and director. He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern. Cummings spent most of his career at his uncle Louis B. Mayer's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he began work in the 1920s. Mayer started his nephew out as an office boy and expected him to work his way up through the ranks. Cummings became a staff producer at MGM in 1934, where he worked in the B-feature unit for two years. In 1936, he produced the extravagant Cole Porter musical Born to Dance, which established his reputation as a respected producer. Cummings remained at MGM even after his uncle was fired from the studio in 1951, working with talent such as the Marx Brothers, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and Fred Astaire and producing some of the era's best-known musicals, including 1953's Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He left MGM to become an independent producer affiliated with Twentieth Century-Fox and produced the 1959 remake of The Blue Angel and the 1960 movie version of the Abe Burrows-Cole Porter Broadway musical Can-Can. In 1964, he returned to MGM one last time to produce the Elvis Presley musical Viva Las Vegas. Other credits included Easy to Wed, It Happened in Brooklyn, Three Little Words, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Interrupted Melody, and The Teahouse of the August Moon. Jack Cummings was the son of Ida Mayer Cummings, sister of Louis B Mayer. He had two sisters, Ruth (married to film director Roy Rowland) and Mitzi (married to film producer Sol Baer Fielding), as well as a younger half brother Leonard 'Sonny' Cummings. Mr. Cummings was survived by his four daughters, Julie Cummings Siff, of Manhattan, Kathy Cummings St. Aubin, of Los Angeles, Linda Kern Cummings, of Danville, Ky., and Carla Luisa Cummings, of Los Angeles.Read more

Movies & web series

Jail Birds of Paradise

Gems of M-G-M

Operation Teahouse

Pipe Dreams

Hello Pop

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Swing High

Can-Can

Broadway Melody of 1940

The Stratton Story

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Listen, Darling

Many Rivers to Cross

Kiss Me Kate

Broadway Melody of 1938

Two Weeks with Love

Go West

Honolulu

The Second Time Around

Viva Las Vegas

Easy to Wed

Three Little Words

Broadway Rhythm

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Ship Ahoy

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Neptune's Daughter

Beer and Pretzels

Born to Dance

Interrupted Melody

Bathing Beauty

Yellow Jack

Bachelor Flat

Lovely to Look At

Nertsery Rhymes

Give a Girl a Break

Crazy House

Texas Carnival

The Blue Angel

Plane Nuts

I Dood It

Rose Marie

Sombrero

Over the Counter

The Winning Ticket

Los tres chiflados