Albert Zugsmith
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With a background in music promotion (Ted Weems, Paul Whiteman), public relations (one of his clients in Depression-era Chicago was Al Capone), journalism, and brokering communication properties (radio, newspaper, early television), Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, all for Universal Studios: the science-fiction classic ''The Incredible Shrinking Man'', Orson Welles' ''Touch of Evil'', Douglas Sirk's ''Written on the Wind'', and the camp exploitation films (produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ''High School Confidential'' and ''The Girl in the Kremlin''. An archive of some of his shooting scripts and screenplays are housed in the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa. Provided by Wikipedia