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- Henry Ginsberg was born on May 8, 1897 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Giant (1956), Before Midnight (1925) and Flying Fists (1924). He died on June 10, 1979 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- He was executive head of Paramount Pictures before he produced Giant (1956) for Warner Bros.
- Owned film distribution company Henry Ginsberg Distributing Corp., of New York City, formed in 1925.
- As general manager of Hal Roach Studios from 1931 to 1936, Ginsberg acquired an unsavory reputation as a hatchet man. His ruthless cost-cutting, penchant for intrigue, and insistence that the Roach comedies could always be produced faster and cheaper, made him a feared and hated figure in the otherwise genial atmosphere of Roach's "Lot of Fun". Ginsberg particularly did not get along with comedian Stan Laurel, who nicknamed him "The Expediter". One of the many Roach employees he fired was a budding young director named George Stevens. Ironically, a quarter-century later Ginsberg would co-produce Stevens' epic feature "Giant" (1956) and get an Oscar nomination for it.
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