Jack Cummings

Director | Writer

Date of birth : 02/16/1900

Date of death : 04/28/1989

City of birth : New Brunswick, Canada

Although related to MGM head Louis B. Mayer, Cummings started his career at the studio as a low-paid office boy. He worked his way up to script supervisor and assistant director, and was eventually placed in charge of the studio's short-subjects department, where he personally produced most (and directed several) of them. In 1934 MGM made Cummings a producer of features, and as such he was responsible for many of the studio's most famous musicals.