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Frank Yablans (born August 27 , 1935 ) is an American film producer and screenwriter .1He was executive producer of such films as Congo ( 1995 ) and Silver Streak ( 1976 ), and wrote and produced Mommie Dearest ( 1981 ).2Yablans is the brother of fellow producer Irwin Yablans . He is a native of Brooklyn , New York .3
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Frank Yablans, an American film producer and screenwriter , was born August 27, 1935, the son of a Brooklyn cab driver, and brother to fellow film producer Irwin Yablans .His first employers in the film business included Warner Bros. , The Walt Disney Company and Filmways .He became Executive Vice President of Sales for Paramount Pictures in the late 1960s; in that position, his expert marketing of the film Love Story led to his appointment as Paramount Studios' President in 1971, a position he held until 1975.Followng his presidency at Paramount, he became an independent producer, working primarily through Paramount and 20th Century Fox .He was executive producer of such films as Congo (1995), Silver Streak (1976), and The Other Side of Midnight (1977) and wrote and produced Mommie Dearest (1981).Yablans was then recruited by Kirk Kerkorian to head his troubled and debt-laden film company, MGM .While Yablans' reorganization of MGM and United Artists into a single entity as MGM/UA served to reduce costs and overhead, the company continued to lose value, and Yablans' tenure was equated to the demise of the studio in Fade Out: The Calamitous Final Days of MGM, a book by Peter Bart , presently the editor of Variety , who was hired by Yablans as MGM's senior vice president for production in 1983.
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Frank Yablans (August 27, 1935 – November 27, 2014) was an American film producer and screenwriter .
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Frank Yablans (August 27, 1935 – November 27, 2014) was an American studio executive, film producer and screenwriter .
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Frank Yablans (August 27, 1935 – November 27, 2014) was an American studio executive, film producer , and screenwriter . Yablans served as an executive at Paramount Pictures , including President of the studio, in the 1960s and 70s.As a filmmaker, he is best known for writing and producing the film Mommie Dearest (1981), which was nominated for nine Razzies at the 2nd Golden Raspberry Awards and "won" Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay for Yablans.
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American screenwriter and film producer (1935 - 2014) Frank Yablans (August 27, 1935 – November 27, 2014) was an American studio executive, film producer , and screenwriter . Yablans served as an executive at Paramount Pictures , including President of the studio, in the 1960s and 1970s.
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american film producer and screenwriter
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american studio executive
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