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May Romm
May E. (Ginsberg) Romm (October 14, 1892 – October 15, 1977) was a Jewish American psychiatrist, Freudian psychoanalyst, educator, and author. After graduating and establishing a practice in New York, Romm moved to Hollywood in 1938 and influenced psychoanalytic infusion in American film. She was an expert on fetishism and exhibitionism and considered the most influential Hollywood Freudian of the mid-twentieth century. Romm had numerous notable clients including film mogul and producer David O. Selznick. and composer Artie Shaw. She pioneered psychoanalytic themes in films, worked on screenplays from a psychoanalytic approach, and worked with directors including Alfred Hitchcock. Early life May Minnie Ethel Ginsburg migrated from Russia with her parents to the United States in 1903. She was described as a compact and ambitious who spent her 1890s childhood in the same shtetl as the painter Marc Chagall. In New York she attended the New York Medical College and Hospital for W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Romm
Alexis Romm (April 19, 1877 – September 25, 1928) was a Russian-born Jewish, American, New York City, Bronx, and Mount Vernon based entrepreneur, builder, real estate developer, and art collector. Through his multiple companies and enterprises he constructed numerous multi-story apartment buildings. His dramatic suicide, after a cancer diagnosis, and subsequent estate settlement was widely written about and published in newspapers across the United States. Personal life and marriages Alexis Romm, was born on April 19, 1877, in Russia. He immigrated to the United States and married Bella Usiskin who had migrated to the United States in 1902 at age 23. The couple had three children, Serge (Sergus) Romm (1903–1933), Emil Romm (1904–1965) and Martha Romm (Clinco) (1914–1978). Romm was a prominent member of New York's Jewish Community, his son Emil Romm married Isabel Levine, the daughter of Russian born Jewish American Lawyer and Judge Max S. Levine in 1929. Martha Clinco ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miracle On 34th Street
''Miracle on 34th Street'' (initially released as ''The Big Heart'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1947 American Christmas film, Christmas comedy-drama film released by 20th Century-Fox, written and directed by George Seaton and based on a story by Valentine Davies. It stars Maureen O'Hara, John Payne (actor), John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn. The story takes place between Thanksgiving and Christmas in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film has become a perennial Christmas favorite. ''Miracle on 34th Street'' won three Academy Awards: Gwenn for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Valentine Davies for Academy Award for Best Story, Best Writing, Original Story, and George Seaton for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Writing, Screenplay. The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, losing to ''Gentleman's Agreement''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |