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- Birth nameSamuel Donald Harman
- Producer, director, writer, author, actor and songwriter, educated in public schools. He was an actor, playwright and stage manager with the Dallas Little Theatre, and played Andy Hardy in the Broadway play "Skidding". Coming to Hollywood in 1933, he wrote screenplays and songs for several films (see credits) and eventually became an executive producer for Paramount. Joining ASCAP in 1935, his popular-song compositions include "I Found a Dream", "Love at Last", "Readin', Ritin', Rhythm", "If I Knew You Better", "Okolehao", and "Ting-a-ling-a-ling".
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- SpouseHelen Veronica Weinberg(April 6, 1928 - March 23, 1958) (his death, 3 children)
- ChildrenTimothy Joseph HartmanDonna Lucy Hartman (Hulsey)Mima Hartman (Periera)
- ParentsIda StraussMax Hartman
- During the Depression, before his Hollywood career, Hartman served as the social director of the legendary Grossinger's Hotel in NY's Catskill Mountains. Nearby, the entertainment at the competitive Flagler Hotel was headed up by Moss Hart, would would later achieve fame as a Broadway playwright, assisted by Dore Schary, who would go on to head MGM, a competitor of Paramount Pictures, later headed by Hartman.
- Former Production Chief of Paramount Pictures.
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