Jack Cummings

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-02-16 (84 years old)

Deathday

1989-04-28

Place of Birth

New Brunswick, Canada

Jack Cummings

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John "Jack" Cummings (February 16, 1905 – April 28, 1989) was an American film producer and director. He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern. Cummings spent most of his career at his uncle Louis B. Mayer's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he began work in the 1920s. Mayer started his nephew out as an office boy and expected him to work his way up through the ranks. Cummings became a staff producer at MGM in 1934, where he worked in the B-feature unit for two years. In 1936, he produced the extravagant Cole Porter musical Born to Dance, which established his reputation as a r...

Acting

Production

1964

Viva Las Vegas

as Producer

1976

Pipe Dreams

as Producer

1960

Can-Can

as Producer

1955

1943

I Dood It

as Producer

1935

1961

Bachelor Flat

as Producer

1953

1932

Over the Counter

as Director

1933

Nertsery Rhymes

as Director

1933

1933

Plane Nuts

as Director

1961

1930

Crazy House

as Director

1932

Swing High

as Director

1959

The Blue Angel

as Producer

1951

Texas Carnival

as Producer

1944

Bathing Beauty

as Producer

1939

Honolulu

as Producer

1946

Easy to Wed

as Producer

1949

1954

Rose Marie

as Producer

1953

Kiss Me Kate

as Producer

1933

Hello Pop

as Director

1930

Gems of M-G-M

as Director

1950

1950

1952

1944

Broadway Rhythm

as Producer

1942

Ship Ahoy

as Producer

1940

Go West

as Producer

1938

Listen, Darling

as Producer

1949

1938

Yellow Jack

as Producer

1955

1936

Born to Dance

as Producer

1953

Sombrero

as Producer

1934

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