Joe Pasternak

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Joe Pasternak

American film producer

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Henry Koster
Early work
…Universal Studios and, with producer Joe Pasternak, immediately went to work on a series of musicals starring Deanna Durbin, a teenager who Universal hoped would compete with Twentieth Century-Fox’s star Shirley Temple. The frothy films—which included Three Smart Girls (1936); One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), recipient of an…
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…Universal Studios and, with producer Joe Pasternak, immediately went to work on a series of musicals starring Deanna Durbin, a teenager who Universal hoped would compete with Twentieth Century-Fox’s star Shirley Temple. The frothy films—which included Three Smart Girls (1936); One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), recipient of an…
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