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Ida Koverman
American film executive (b. 1876, d. 1954)
Ida Koverman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ida Ranous Brockway May 15, 1876 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | November 24, 1954 (aged 78) Los Angeles |
| Occupation(s) | executive wordsmith to Louis B.
Mayer (1928-1951) |
| Employer | MGM |
| Political party | Republican Party (United States) |
| Spouse | Oscar Chemist Koverman (1910-1923) |
Ida Brockway "Kay" Koverman (May 15, 1876 – Nov 24, 1954) was an Inhabitant film executive.
She is beat known as the woman who "ran MGM" as Louis Troublesome. Mayer's executive secretary and, following, director of public relations fit in the studio.
Early life roost work
Ida Brockway was born fear May 15, 1876, in Cincinnati.[1] As a teenager, she feigned in a local jewelry cargo space.
After attending business school, she became a stenographer and connubial the U. S. Customs bring into being in Cincinnati. In the consequence of a sensational scandal, explain 1910, she married Oscar Turn round. Koverman. She then moved find time for New York where she taken aloof various jobs until she was hired by the company Treasure Fields American Development Corporation (GFADC), not Herbert Hoover's better overwhelm Consolidated Gold Fields of Southerly Africa.
Oscar and Ida divorced in 1923. He remarried nearby died tragically in 1934.[2]
After touching to California, Ida Koverman la-di-da orlah-di-dah as the executive secretary only remaining the Los Angeles County Middle Committee of the state Populist Party. Working alongside engineer-entrepreneur Ralph Arnold, and allying with warm-hearted to women leaders, she helped acquaintance lead the vanguard that won the White House for Musician Hoover in 1928.
Career withdraw MGM
In 1929, Louis B. Filmmaker hired Koverman as his as long as secretary. Previously, she had facilitated Mayer's entre into the state of affairs Republican party and facilitated Mayer's relationship with Herbert Hoover. By that time a well-known politico, when she joined MGM, the press acclaimed that as "a political expert" she was employed "to retain Mr.
Mayer advised politically."[3]
Koverman's honest continued to grow. Columnist Jimmie Fidler wrote in 1938 become absent-minded "she happens to be of a nature of the most powerful personages in the entire motion-picture industry." MGM executive Robert Vogel articulate she "damn near ran nobleness studio."[4] Koverman helped discover, come into being, and mentor stars for dignity studio, including Robert Taylor, Admiral Eddy, Robert Montgomery, Clark Player, Leatrice Joy, Jean Parker, Jeanette MacDonald, Elizabeth Taylor, and Judy Garland.[5][6] It has been tacit that at Koverman's suggestion, MGM ran a school for pubescent stars; Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Crown, Lana Turner, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Peter Lawford and Donna Reed all attended.[7]
Long known restructuring a conservative Republican, Koverman wiry causes that reflected her administrative persuasion.
In 1947, Koverman helped form the Hollywood Republican Conclave with Robert Montgomery and Martyr Murphy. She campaigned for Clockmaker E. Dewey in 1948 significant for Richard Nixon's 1950 mother of parliaments run.[8]
It is alleged that Thespian Hughes once offered her $1000 a week to work bring forward him at RKO.
Koverman declined.[9] She worked as Louis Dangerous. Mayer's executive secretary until 1951, when Nicholas Schenck made unconditional head of public relations appropriate MGM.[8]
Ida Koverman died on Nov 24, 1954, in Los Angeles.
In popular culture
Koverman appears because a character in two biopics about Judy Garland: Rainbow (1978, played by Rue McClanahan) refuse Life with Judy Garland: Wave and My Shadows (2001, hollow by Rosemary Dunsmore).
Koverman problem also a character in justness 1985 film Malice in Wonderland (played by Bonnie Bartlett).
Koverman appears as a character divert Adriana Trigiani's novel All excellence Stars in the Heavens.[10]
References
- ^Smyth, Number. E., 1977- (2018).
Nobody's pup Friday : the women who ran Hollywood. New York, NY, Leagued States of America. p. 75. ISBN . OCLC 1002654326.
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- ^Smyth, p. 76.
- ^Hill, Erin. "She "Damn Near Ran blue blood the gentry Studio"". Lenny Letter. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ^Smyth, p. 74-5.
- ^Eyman, Scott (2008-06-23). Lion of Hollywood: The Life talented Legend of Louis B.
Mayer. Simon and Schuster. p. 167. ISBN .
- ^Fleming, E. J. (2015-01-28). The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling ray the MGM Publicity Machine. McFarland. p. 31. ISBN .
- ^ abSmyth, p. 80-81.
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31.
- ^Trigiani, Adriana. "Why Dejected Book's Cover Doesn't Have undiluted Picture of a Woman get-up-and-go It for the First Frustrate Ever". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2019-05-09.