Carl Laemmle Jr.
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Carl Laemmle Jr. (April 28, 1908 - September 24, 1979) was in charge of production at Universal Studios from about 1928 to 1936. He was the son of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Laemmle developed a reputation for spending too much money at the studios on several films that did not earn back their cost. Although Universal had great success with All Quiet on the Western Front (film), Dracula (1931 film), Waterloo Bridge (1931 film), Frankenstein (1931 film), The Mummy (1932 film), The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man (1933 film), Imitation of Life (1934 film) (which Laemmle, Jr. did not personally produce, as he did the others), and Bride of Frankenstein, by the end of 1935 the studio had spent so much and had so many flops that J. Cheever Cowdin proposed to buy out the Laemmles. The great success, financially and critically, of the 1936 screen version of Show Boat, was not enough to correct the downslide, and the two Laemmles, father and son, were both forced out of the company. Neither of them worked on another film again, despite the fact that Carl, Jr. lived another forty-three years. Charles R. Rogers became the new head of production at Universal.
Laemmle, Jr., died from a stroke at the age of 71.
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