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1955 — the present
The roster, honestly drawn: South Bend has sent the screen one producer of the first rank — Sydney Pollack, raised here, who spent his last two decades godfathering other directors' films through his own company — and, behind…
Sydney Pollack: the Mirage years
Producer from 1975 — Mirage Enterprises, 1985–2008
The director's second career: Sydney Pollack was raised in South Bend — born in Lafayette on 1 July 1934, a South Bend High School graduate of 1952 — and his directing life, Out of Africa and Tootsie at its head, stands in the…
Vivica A. Fox: producer of the Wrong films
Born South Bend, 30 July 1964 — co-executive producer, then a franchise of her own
Born here, raised downstate: Vivica Anjanetta Fox was born in South Bend on 30 July 1964, the daughter of a pharmaceutical technician and a private-school administrator; her parents relocated to the Indianapolis area soon after…
Nicholas Sparks: Nicholas Sparks Productions
Formed at Notre Dame, class of 1988 — producer from 2013
The novelist who became his own producer: Nicholas Sparks was born in Omaha and raised in Sacramento; the South Bend tie is a formation, and it is a documented one — he came to the University of Notre Dame on a track scholarship…
Hannah Storm: Brainstormin' Productions
Formed at Notre Dame, class of 1983 — Brainstormin' Productions, 2008–
She started at this city's station: Hannah Storm was born Hannah Storen on 13 June 1962 in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in Atlanta; the South Bend tie, like Sparks's, is a Notre Dame formation — the class of 1983, degrees in…
Dave Williams and Beyond Our Control: the show the teenagers produced
WJA-TV, 1961 — Beyond Our Control, 1967–1986 · WNDU-TV
A producer born here, and a company of schoolchildren: The most unusual production credit in this city's record belongs to a South Bend native who never left. Dave Williams was born in South Bend in June 1940 and became WNDU-TV's…
The station builders: a university's channel, a newspaper's channels, and the men who ran them
WSBT radio 1922 · WSBT-TV 1952 · WNDU-TV, 15 July 1955
The producing side of the foundings: The stations' institutional history belongs to the Newspapers & Media record; the people who built and programmed them belong here. South Bend's television was built by two owners. The first…
WNIT: public television's producers
Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation, 1968 — on air 31 January 1974
The city's own documentaries: The producing that South Bend watches about itself is public television's. The Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation was formed by nineteen people of South Bend, Elkhart, and Mishawaka — its…
Bill Dobslaw and the Riviera label: the record side, at its true size
1963–1966 · the Rivieras' singles and the label's whole catalogue
One hour in Chicago, on a twenty-one-year-old's money: The record producers of this city amount, in the documented record, to one young man performing the producer's functions without the title. Bill Dobslaw was twenty-one when…
The theater producers: the circuits
1910–1977 · the rooms' lives are in the Theaters chapter
The impresarios were companies: The legitimate stage's producers in this city were not local men but the circuits that built the rooms and routed the bills, and they are carried here at the size the Theaters record gives them …