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name: "Lawrence Weingarten"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lawrence-weingarten"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "30 December 1897"
died: "5 February 1975"
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average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:09:42.999109+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lawrence Weingarten

Producer. Born 30 December 1897 in Chicago. Died 5 February 1975.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 30 December 1897, Chicago
- **Died:** 5 February 1975
- **Active:** 1929–1936
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 60 (1), 1930s 77 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weingarten, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507728, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0918318/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3633

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Broadway Melody*](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md) (60)

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## Biography

Lawrence Weingarten (30 December 1897 – 5 February 1975) was an American film producer. Born in Chicago, he began his career in publicity before joining Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1927 as an associate producer. He worked under Irving Thalberg and later served as co-head of the studio's editorial board, producing around 75 films over nearly four decades.

His credits include *The Broadway Melody* (1929), *Spite Marriage* (1929), *A Day at the Races* (1937), *Libeled Lady* (1936), *Adam's Rib* (1949), *Pat and Mike* (1952), *The Tender Trap* (1955), *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* (1958) and *The Unsinkable Molly Brown* (1964). He received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1974, presented by Katharine Hepburn.

Weingarten was married to Sylvia Thalberg from 1928 until their divorce and to Jessie Marmorston from 1945 until his death from leukaemia in Los Angeles.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Libeled Lady* (1936), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/libeled-lady.md)
- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *That's Entertainment, Part II* (1976), Thanks
- *The Impossible Years* (1968), Producer
- *Signpost to Murder* (1964), Producer
- *The Unsinkable Molly Brown* (1964), Producer
- *Period of Adjustment* (1962), Producer
- *Ada* (1961), Producer
- *The Honeymoon Machine* (1961), Producer
- *The Gazebo* (1959), Producer
- *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof* (1958), Producer
- *Don't Go Near the Water* (1957), Producer
- *I'll Cry Tomorrow* (1955), Producer
- *The Tender Trap* (1955), Producer
- *The Actress* (1953), Producer
- *Pat and Mike* (1952), Producer
- *Invitation* (1952), Producer
- *Adam's Rib* (1949), Producer
- *Without Love* (1945), Producer
- *Escape* (1940), Producer
- *I Love You Again* (1940), Producer
- *I Take This Woman* (1940), Producer
- *Balalaika* (1939), Producer
- *Too Hot to Handle* (1938), Producer
- *A Day at the Races* (1937), Producer
- *The Last of Mrs. Cheyney* (1937), Producer
- *Libeled Lady* (1936), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/libeled-lady.md)
- *His Brother's Wife* (1936), Producer
- *The Unguarded Hour* (1936), Producer
- *Rendezvous* (1935), Producer
- *Sadie McKee* (1934), Producer
- *The Mystery of Mr. X* (1934), Producer
- *Should Ladies Behave* (1933), Producer
- *The Nuisance* (1933), Associate Producer
- *What! No Beer?* (1933), Producer
- *Sidewalks of New York* (1931), Producer
- *Spite Marriage* (1929), Production Supervisor
- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1959: Best Picture (nominated), for *Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1974: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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