Former Academy president and legendary producer Walter Mirisch dies at 101
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History alter Mirisch University of Wisconsin Press: 450 pp., $29.95
“Once out of the gate, the Mirisches give you full rein, and never use the whip,” Wilder told The Times in 1967. “When you win a race, they let you wear the wreath. And if you break your leg, they don’t shoot you — they let you do it yourself.”“They left me alone, they left William Wyler alone, they left Billy Wilder alone, they left John Sturges alone,” Jewison said in 2005.
“I said if it doesn’t play in the South, it doesn’t play in the South,” he said. “What it has to say is so very important that the picture has to be seen, and there are enough places in this country where people will see and will want to see it.” Born Nov. 8, 1921, in New York City, Walter was the first of the Mirisch brothers to make his way to Hollywood. The son of a tailor, he had worked his way through school as an usher in various theaters, attending City College of New York and getting his degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration before moving to the West Coast. His half-brother, Harold, who was already working in the film industry in distribution for Warner Bros.
But neither film was a big enough money-maker for Allied Artists. In 1957, as the studio system waned, the three brothers struck out on their own to produce or “package” their kind of films without the pressure of having to justify profits.
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