Adeline Schulberg
Adeline Schulberg | |
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| Born | Adeline Jaffe April 14, 1895 |
| Died | July 15, 1977 (aged 82) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | University of California (B.A.) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Budd |
| Family | Sam Jaffe (brother) Matt Tolmach (great-nephew) Jigee Viertel (daughter-in-law) Geraldine Brooks (daughter-in-law) |
Adeline Jaffe Schulberg (April 14, 1895 – July 15, 1977) was a talent and literary agent who founded the Ad Schulberg Agency.[1]
Biography
She was born Adeline Jaffe to a
B.P. Schulberg, then an agent with Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players–Lasky, a job producing a film documentary about English suffragist leader Sylvia Pankhurst.[1] In 1918, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles where her husband took a job as a producer at Paramount Pictures while Schulberg became an activist for child welfare, education, woman's rights, and promoting birth control by helping to establish birth control clinics throughout the West.[1] In 1926, she graduated with a B.A. from the University of California.[1] In 1929, she helped to found the first progressive school in California based on the principles of John Dewey.[1] In 1932, she founded the Schulberg-Feldman talent agency with Charles K. Feldman which was soon joined by her brother Sam Jaffe and Noll Gurney.[2]
After her divorce from her husband in 1933, she established her own talent agency named the Ad Schulberg Agency which represented some of the biggest stars at the time including
Personal life
In 1913, Schulberg was married to then
B.P. Schulberg; they had a son Budd Schulberg before divorcing in 1933.[1] She died in New York City on July 15, 1977.[1] Her son was married and divorced from actresses Virginia Lee Ray (known as Jigee Viertel) and Geraldine Brooks
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