David Weisbart
| David Weisbert | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 21, 1915 Los Angeles |
| Died | July 21, 1967 (aged 52) Los Angeles |
| Occupation | Film editor and Producer |
David Weisbart (January 21, 1915 – July 21, 1967) was an American film editor and producer.
Born in Los Angeles, Weisbart began working as a film editor for Warner Bros. in 1942. Over the next decade, he was involved in the editing of some twenty films, including The Constant Nymph (1943), Mildred Pierce (1945), Night and Day (1946), Dark Passage (1947), The Fountainhead (1949), The Glass Menagerie (1950), and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). He was nominated for the Academy Award for editing Johnny Belinda (1948).
In 1952, Weisbart became a producer, the youngest under contract to Warner Bros. That same year he produced his first film, Mara Maru, starring Errol Flynn and Ruth Roman. In 1955 he produced the film for which he is probably best remembered: the James Dean classic, Rebel Without a Cause.
Weisbart left Warner Bros. for 20th Century Fox, where he produced Love Me Tender (1956), the first Elvis Presley film. Weisbart would produce three more Presley movies, as well as April Love (1957) for another teen idol, Pat Boone.
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