Ray Stark

Ray Stark

Ray Stark (October 3, 1915January 17, 2004) was an Academy Award-nominated American film producer and powerbroker known for his Machiavellian ways. Stark was one of the most influential producers in film history and along with Lew Wasserman was considered one of the last great moguls.

While putting together the Broadway musical "Funny Girl" - the highly fictionalized account of the life of his mother-in-law, Fanny Brice - its producer David Merrick took Stark and his wife to see an unknown singer perform at the Bon Soir in Greenwich Village. At first, the Starks balked at using Barbra Streisand, but settled for her when they couldn't get Eydie Gorme or Carol Burnett and their initial choice, Anne Bancroft, pulled out.

Stark forced Streisand to sign a four-picture deal with his Rastar Productions in exchange for reprising Brice. They collaborated on "The Owl and the Pussycat" (1970), "The Way We Were" (1973) and "Funny Lady" (1975), but there was obvious bitterness: after "Funny Lady" wrapped, Streisand gave Stark an antique mirror on which she wrote in lipstick, "Paid in full."

Stark was the power behind the throne at Columbia Pictures in the 1970s and 80s. In 1977, when actor Cliff Robertson started an investigation which revealed that Columbia President David Begelman had forged checks, Stark told Robertson to not press on. Robertson said he would do "what a citizen should do in this situation," and Robertson was blacklisted for two years. The story is detailed in David McClintick's "Indecent Exposure: A True Story Of Hollywood And Wall Street".

He received the Irving G. Thalberg award in 1980 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Later in his career, he produced such films "Annie" and "Steel Magnolias," with varying degrees of success.

On his passing in 2004, Ray Stark was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. At the time of his death his estate was valued at two billion dollars.

Films

*"The Night of the Iguana" (1964, MGM)
*"This Property Is Condemned" (1966, Paramount)
*"Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967, Warner Bros.)
*"Funny Girl" (1968, Columbia)
*"The Owl and the Pussycat" (1970, Columbia)
*"Fat City" (1972, Columbia)
*"The Way We Were" (1973, Columbia)
*"The Sunshine Boys" (1975, MGM)
*"Funny Lady" (1975, Columbia)
*"Murder by Death" (1976, Columbia)
*"The Goodbye Girl" (1977, MGM)
*"Robin and Marian" (1976, Columbia)
*"Smokey and the Bandit" (1977, Universal)
*"The Cheap Detective" (1978, Columbia)
*"California Suite" (1978, Columbia)
*"The Electric Horseman" (1979, Universal/Columbia)
*"Annie" (1982, Columbia)
*"Steel Magnolias" (1989, TriStar)
*"Lost in Yonkers" (1993, Columbia)
*"Barbarians at the Gate" (1993, HBO, made for TV)

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