George Glass
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George Glass (1910 - 1984) was an American film producer and publicist, best known for his work with Stanley Kramer. In Kramer's 1997 autobiography, describing how he formed his first production company in the late 1940s, he called Glass "one of the best publicity men in town," and remarked "I was fortunate to get Glass, with whom I had worked in the Lewin-Loew partnership before the war. He was a bright man and a very smooth operator."[1]
Glass is widely credited with originating the witicism, "An actor is a kind of guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening."[2] (That quotation has also been attributed to Marlon Brando.)
[edit] In fiction
George Glass is the name of the non-existent boyfriend that Jan Brady made up in an episode of The Brady Bunch.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: A Life in Hollywood by Stanley Kramer and Thomas M. Coffey; Harcourt, 1997.
- ^ Famous Lines: The Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations; Columbia University Press, 1996. See also slightly different wording at creativewit.com, All the Best Quotes, cybernation.com (all retrieved 19-January-2008).
- ^ The Brady Bunch, episode 34, season 2, The Not-So-Ugly Duckling, first aired November 20, 1970; see tv.com listing (retrieved 19-January-2008).