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Carl Laemmle Jr. (28 April 1908 – 24 September 1979) was in charge of production at Universal Studios from about 1928 to 1936. He was the son of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, called “Junior”, by his friends and family, developed a reputation for spending too much money at the studios on several films that did not earn back their cost. During his tenure, Universal had great success with All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Dracula (1931), Waterloo Bridge (1931), Frankenstein (1931), East of Borneo (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), Imitation of Life (
Carl Laemmle Jr. (28 April 1908 – 24 September 1979) was in charge of production at Universal Studios from about 1928 to 1936. He was the son of Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, called “Junior”, by his friends and family, developed a reputation for spending too much money at the studios on several films that did not earn back their cost. During his tenure, Universal had great success with All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Dracula (1931), Waterloo Bridge (1931), Frankenstein (1931), East of Borneo (1931), The Mummy (1932), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), Imitation of Life (1934) (a film which Laemmle Jr. did not personally produce), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
However, by the end of 1935, the studio had spent so much and had had so many flops that J. Cheever Cowdin proposed to buy out the Laemmles. The great success, financially and critically, of the 1936 film Show Boat, based on the famous stage musical, was not enough to correct the downslide, and the two Laemmles, father and son, were both forced out of the company. Neither of them worked on another film again, despite the fact that Carl, Jr. lived another forty-three years. Charles R. Rogers became the new head of production at Universal.
Laemmle, Jr., died from a stroke at the age of 71, 40 years to the day after his father's death. He was entombed in the Chapel Mausoleum at Home of Peace Cemetery. Until his death, lived at 1641 Tower Grove Drive, Beverly Hills, California. By Beverly Hills standards his was a modest home, although it was the last on the block and once outside one can see gorgeous mountains and trails.
Carl Jr., sister Rosabelle Laemmle (pre marriage to Stanley Bergerman), and Universal founder Carl Laemmle shared a large New York City apartment located at 465 West End Avenue one block from Riverside Drive and the Hudson River.
Sadly his mother Recha Laemmle (née Stern) died in 1919 when he was eleven years old. She was buried in Salem Fields Cemetery located on Jamaica Avenue in the Glendale section of Brooklyn, New York. On July 19, 1941 the Laemmle family made arrangements to have her removed from the Mausoleum where she was laid to rest and moved to the family mausoleum within the Home Of Peace Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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