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Mark John Hellinger (March 21, 1903 – December 21, 1947) was an American journalist, theatre columnist and film producer.
Mark John Hellinger was an American journalist, theatre columnist and film producer.

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Hellinger, Mark

HELLINGER, MARK (1903–1947), U.S. columnist and playwright. A reporter for the New York Daily News, in 1923 Hellinger became the first columnist to write regularly about Broadway. In 1930 he moved to the New York Daily Mirror. He wrote musicals, plays, film scripts, and novels, and the last Ziegfeld Follies to be produced by Ziegfeld himself in 1930.

In 1937 he went to Hollywood as a producer and becameknown as a master of screen violence. Some of the films he produced include They Drive by Night (starring George Raft, 1940); Torrid Zone (James Cagney, 1940); High Sierra (Humphrey Bogart, 1941); the comedy Affectionately Yours (Rita Hayworth, 1941); Manpower (Edward G. Robinson, 1941); the musical Thank Your Lucky Stars (Eddie Cantor, 1943); Between Two Worlds (John Garfield, 1944); The Killers (Burt Lancaster, 1946), which won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture; Brute Force (Lancaster, 1947); The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Bogart, 1947); and The Naked City (Howard Duff, 1948).

In 1931 Moon over Broadway, a collection of hi

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Growing Up: 1903-1922

Mark John Hellinger was born March 21, 1903 in New York City of Orthodox Jewish parents, Paul and Millie Hellinger. His father was a prosperous real estate lawyer, who very much wanted his son Mark to follow him into the law.

Hellinger had a younger brother, Monroe, nicknamed Buddy, who idolized his older brother and his brother’s wife. At the end of his life Buddy, who was slowly dying, came and lived in the Hellinger mansion in until he died.

Hellinger decided on standing in opposition to everything his father stood for when he was a boy, according to Jim Bishop. (Bishop, the chief source of information on Hellinger’s life, was Hellinger’s protege as a newspaperman and his lifelong friend.) Hellinger become a non-practicing Jew, and was utterly disinterested in following his father into a law career. Later on in his life, Hellinger often had diffic