Herman Millakowsky(1892-1987)
- Producer
In 1919 Millakowsky went to Berlin as a journalist, but then worked in
the banking business until 1924. Early in 1924 he became the Director
of the Greenbaum Film, Berlin (founded in 1905). He remained as
executive producer with Greenbaum until late 1931, after which he
founded Thalia-Film and, later the same year, H.-M.-Film, for which he
produced several films, before being forced to flee to Paris by the
Nazis in 1933, after completing production on Max Ophuls' Liebelei
(1933). With Ophuls he completes a French language version of Liebelei
in Paris. In 1934 Millakowsky founded Milo-Films, Paris, producing
eight important films over the next five years, including Ophuls
Yoshiwara (1937) and Robert Wiene's Ultimatum (1938). Three days before the
Germans marched into Paris in 1940, he fled, travelling to Casablanca
and Bermuda, before entering the United States and moving to Hollywood
in early 1942. In Hollywood he worked as a producer for Monogram and
Republic, before being named executtive producer at Republic in
1945.
