Biography

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.
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