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Line 18: Born '''Jerome Irving Wald''' in [[Brooklyn]], New York, he had a brother and sons who were active in show business. He began writing a radio column for the ''New York Evening Graphic'', while studying at [[New York University]]. This led to him producing several ''[[Rambling 'Round Radio Row]]'' featurettes for [[Vitaphone]], [[Warner Brothers]]' short subject division (1932–33). He wrote and produced numerous films between the 1930s and 1960s, including ''Stars Over Broadway'' (1935), ''[[The Roaring Twenties]]'' (1939), ''[[On Your Toes#Film adaptation\|On Your Toes]]'' (1939, in collaboration with playwright [[Lawrence Riley]]), ''[[They Drive by Night]]'' (1940), ''[[Across the Pacific]]'' (1942), ''[[The Man Who Came to Dinner (film)\|The Man Who Came to Dinner]]'' (1942), ''[[Destination Tokyo]]'' (1943), ''[[Mildred Pierce (film)\|Mildred Pierce]]'' (1945), ''[[Johnny Belinda (1948 film)\|Johnny Belinda]]'' (1948), ''[[Key Largo (film)\|Key Largo]]'' (1948), ''Always Leave Them Laughing'' (1949), ''[[The Glass Menagerie (1950 film)\|The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1950), and ''[[Perfect Strangers (1950 film)\|Perfect Strangers]]'' (1950). Wald and [[Norman Krasna]] formed Wald/Krasna Productions to release films through [[RKO Radio Pictures]], including ''[[Two Tickets to Broadway]]'' (1951), ''[[The Blue Veil]]'' (1951), ''[[Behave Yourself!]'' (1952), ''[[The Lusty Men]]'' (1952), and ''[[Clash by Night]]'' (1953). Krasna and Wald dissolved their partnership because of interference from [[Howard Hughes]], then head of RKO, in their productions. Wald went on to produce ''[[Peyton Place (film)\|Peyton Place]]'' (1957), ''[[An Affair to Remember]]'' (1957), ''[[In Love and War (1958 film)\|In Love and War]]'' (1958), ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' (1959), ''[[Sons and Lovers (1960 film)\|Sons and Lovers]]'' (1960), ''[[Return to Peyton Place (film)\|Return to Peyton Place]]'' (1961), and ''[[Wild in the Country]]'' (1961). He also produced the [[Academy Awards]] telecast twice, the ceremonies for 1957 and 1958.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907003/ Jerry Wald credits at IMDb]</ref> He received four Academy Award nominations as producer of the following [[Academy Award for Best Picture\|nominees for Best Picture]]: ''[[Mildred Pierce (film)\|Mildred Pierce]]'', ''[[Johnny Belinda (1948 film)\|Johnny Belinda]]'', ''[[Peyton Place (film)\|Peyton Place]]'' and ''[[Sons and Lovers (1960 film)\|Sons and Lovers]]''.<ref name="Osborne">{{cite book \|title=65 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards\|last=Osborne\|first=Robert\|authorlink=Robert Osborne\|year=1994\|publisher=Abbeville Press\|location=London\|isbn=1-55859-715-8\|pages=88, 110, 147, and 164}}</ref> Although he never won a competitive Academy Award, he was awarded the [[Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award]] in 1949.<ref name="Osborne131">Osborne, p. 131</ref>