Louis Sarecky

Louis Sarecky
Louis Sarecky
Born	January 26, 1886; Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	March 4, 1946 (aged 60); Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation(s)	Producer, screenwriter
Years active	1928–1941

Louis Sarecky (January 26, 1886 – March 4, 1946) was an American film producer and screenwriter at the very beginning of the sound era of motion pictures. Born in 1886 in Odessa in what was then the Russian Empire (today now part of Ukraine), he began his career in the last year of silent film, 1928, working on five films that year, four as screenwriter and one as producer. While he is only credited with working on 26 films, some of those were among the most popular films at that time: The Vagabond Lover (1929), Rudy Vallée's screen debut; The Cuckoos, starring the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey; and Friends and Lovers in 1931, starring Adolphe Menjou and Laurence Olivier. His crowning achievement would be the Academy Award-winning 1931 film Cimarron. Sarecky was the associate producer on the film, as well as helping adapt the screenplay, although he was uncredited for the latter. Since the film won the Oscar for both outstanding production and best adapted screenplay, he would have the dubious distinction of contributing in both those fields, yet not receiving an Academy Award himself (William LeBaron would receive the Outstanding Production Oscar, while Howard Estabrook would get the writing statue).^[1]

Sarecky was the brother to the more well-known writer and producer, Barney Sarecky. Louis would die in Los Angeles California in 1946.

Filmography

(as per AFI's database)^[2]

Year	Title	Role
1928	Stocks and Blondes	Producer
1928	Blockade	Screenplay
1928	Hey Rube!	Screenplay
1928	His Last Haul	Original story
1928	Legionnaires in Paris	Original story
1929	Night Parade	Associate producer
1929	Street Girl	Associate producer
1929	Tanned Legs	Producer
1929	The Vagabond Lover	Associate Producer
1929	Love in the Desert	Original story
1930	The Cuckoos	Associate Producer
1930	Leathernecking	Associate Producer
1930	Shooting Straight	Producer
1931	Cimarron	Associate Producer, screenplay
1931	Are These Our Children?	Associate Producer
1931	Friends and Lovers	Producer
1931	Everything's Rosie	Associate Producer
1931	Kept Husbands	Associate Producer, screenplay
1931	The Public Defender	Associate Producer
1931	Secret Service	Associate Producer
1931	The Runaround	Associate Producer
1931	Young Donovan's Kid	Associate Producer
1932	The Lost Squadron	Associate Producer
1932	Girl of the Rio	Associate Producer
1934	Gridiron Flash	Associate Producer
1941	Kansas Cyclone	Original story

References

^ "The 4th Academy Awards - 1932". Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
^ "Louis Sarecky". American Film Institute. Retrieved October 10, 2014.