| Sam Jaffe was born May 21, 1901. At
different points in his career, he was an agent, a producer and a studio executive. He began as an office boy for Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky
Company where he worked his way up through the ranks to become the executive in charge of production. In the early 1930s he
worked at Columbia Pictures briefly before leaving to start his
own talent agency. He successfully represented several stars of the era, including Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Frederick March, David Niven, Zero Mostel,
Richard Burton, and Stanley Kubrick, until the 1950s when his business was negatively
affected by investigations of his many of his clients by Joseph
McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommitte on Investigations. In 1959, he moved to London and became a film producer and a well known
collector of modern art. Jaffe died January 10, 2000.
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