Elliott Kastner obituary |
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| Self-made Hollywood producer best known for adapting novelsElliott Kastner, who has died of cancer aged 80, was the model of a film producer, working his way up from the mailroom at the William Morris Agency in New York to Los Angeles, where he joined another powerful talent agency, MCA, in 1959. He soon became vice-president of Universal Pictures, but after two years he risked everything to become an independent producer, a move that paid off.This achievement required a certain amount of…
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