1/17 | Birthday of Carl Laemmle
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 17 Birthday of Carl Laemmle, Movie Mogul Carl Laemmle was born in Laupheim, Württemberg, on January 17, 1867, one of the four surviving children (out of 12) of Julius and Rebekka Lämmle. Shortly after his bar mitzva, Laemmle was apprenticed to a family for three years to earn some money and after his apprenticeship, headed off to join his brother in the U.S. Laemmle worked as a sales clerk and a farmhand before establishing himself as a bookkeeper in the Midwest (in Oshkosh and then Chicago), a job he kept for 20 years. Inspired by the moving pictures he...
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