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Filmmaker · Austria, United States

Henry Koster

Died in 1988

Henry Koster (1905-1988), born Hermann Kosterlitz in Berlin into a Jewish family, was a screenwriter and assistant before directing his first film in 1932. He left Germany in 1933, worked in France, then in Budapest and Vienna for Universal's producer in Europe, and also shot in the Netherlands. Hired in Hollywood in 1936 without speaking English, he directed there a fourteen-year-old singer in musicals whose success pulled his studio out of bankruptcy, then moved on to MGM and Fox. He died in California.

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