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- James Nederlander Sr. was born on March 31, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a producer, known for The Will Rogers Follies (1991), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2005) and The Children's Royal Variety Performance (1993). He was married to Charlene Saunders and Barbara Smith. He died on July 25, 2016 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- SpousesCharlene Saunders(February 12, 1969 - July 25, 2016) (his death, 2 children)Barbara Smith (divorced, 1 child)
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6233 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 7, 1986.
- He was the patriarch of the Nederlander theater-owning family. In the 1960s, he began buying Broadway theaters. The Nederlander Organization owns and/or runs the Brooks Atkinson, Lunt-Fontanne, Marquis, Minskoff, Neil Simon, Palace, Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and the Nederlander, formerly the Trafalgar.
- He served in the Air Force during WWII. He spent six months on Broadway with the Air Force production of Moss Hart's "Winged Victory". The production featured several hundred actors, among them Private Karl Malden and Private First Class Edmond O'Brien.
- After the war, he opened theaters in Toledo, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Chicago.
- If you own theatres, you must become a producer whether you like it or not. You have to keep the theatres filled. I always say I'm in the moving business - I move them in and I move them out.
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