| Sol M. Wurtzel |
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Born in New York City, New York, Sol M. Wurtzel worked as an executive assistant to William Fox , founding owner of the Fox Film Corporation . In 1917, Fox sent him to California to oversee the studio's West Coast productions. ". He put sultry dancer Rita Cansino in his 1935 production '' Dante's Inferno ''. The star that became Rita Hayworth was born He gave an unknown Norma Jean Baker her first walk-on in his 1947 production of '' Dangerous Years '' appearing as Marilyn Monroe He produced several successful (post-Hal Roach) Laurel And Hardy , comedies in the 1940's such as Great Guns ,(1941) A-Haunting We Will Go ,(1942) Jitterbugs ,(1943) and The Big Noise , (1944) On his passing in 1958, Wurtzel , was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California . Much of Wurtzel's family continued to work at Fox Studios until around the 1980's. EXTERNAL LINKS
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