Other names Felix Joachimson Name Felix Jackson | Role Screenwriter | |
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Full Name Felix Joachimson Occupation Screenwriter, film producer Died December 7, 1992, Woodland Hills, California, United States Books Berlin, April 1933, So Help Me God: A Novel, Secrets of the Blood Children Jessica Louise Jackson, Lawrence Jackson, Ralph Jackson Movies Destry Rides Again, Christmas Holiday, The Rage of Paris, Little Mother, Bundle of Joy Similar People Deanna Durbin, Joe Pasternak, Charles David, Henry Koster, George Marshall | ||
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Felix Jackson (June 5, 1902 – December 7, 1992) was a German-born American screenwriter and film producer. He was born in Hamburg as Felix Joachimson. Jackson was a city editor in Germany at 21, then a dramatic and music critic, and helped manage three theaters in Berlin. He joined Joe Pasternak as a producer in Budapest in 1933. He began working in the German film industry, before relocating after the rise of the Nazi party. He moved to Austria and Hungary in the mid-1930s where he frequently collaborated with the director Henry Koster. His screenplay for the 1935 film Little Mother served as the basis for a Hollywood remake Bachelor Mother (1939) which was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Jackson moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, writing the screenplay for Destry Rides Again (1939) a western starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich. Naturalised U.S. citizen december 13, 1940, he was active in the European Film Fund, which provided support to European emigre filmmakers. He produced several Deanna Durbin films for Universal Pictures and they married in 1945. He joined the advertising agency Young and Rubicam in 1946, heading up its dramatic-television department. He served as executive producer of Pulitzer Prize Playhouse which aired on the ABC television network.
In his fifties, Felix Jackson published a few novels.