Allan Carr (born Allan Soloman, May 27, 1937 â€" June 29, 1999) was an
American producer and manager of stage for the screen. Carr was
nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's
Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National
Association of Theatre Owners.Carr was born Allan Solomon to an
American Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lake Forest
College and Northwestern University, but his interest was always in
show business. While at Northwestern, he invested $750 in the Broadway
musical Ziegfeld Follies starring Tallulah Bankhead. Though the show
was not a hit, he had also invested $1,250 in 1967's The Happiest
Millionaire, which gave him the success he needed to leave school and
embark upon a career in entertainment.In Chicago in the 1960s, he
opened the Civic Theater and financed The World of Carl Sandburg
starring Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, as well as Eva Le Gallienne in
Mary Stuart, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and Tennessee Williams's
Garden District, featuring Cathleen Nesbitt and Diana Barrymore. Carr
worked behind the scenes at Playboy with Hugh Hefner and was a
co-creator of the Playboy Penthouse television series, which in turn
launched the Playboy Clubs.
American producer and manager of stage for the screen. Carr was
nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's
Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National
Association of Theatre Owners.Carr was born Allan Solomon to an
American Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lake Forest
College and Northwestern University, but his interest was always in
show business. While at Northwestern, he invested $750 in the Broadway
musical Ziegfeld Follies starring Tallulah Bankhead. Though the show
was not a hit, he had also invested $1,250 in 1967's The Happiest
Millionaire, which gave him the success he needed to leave school and
embark upon a career in entertainment.In Chicago in the 1960s, he
opened the Civic Theater and financed The World of Carl Sandburg
starring Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, as well as Eva Le Gallienne in
Mary Stuart, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and Tennessee Williams's
Garden District, featuring Cathleen Nesbitt and Diana Barrymore. Carr
worked behind the scenes at Playboy with Hugh Hefner and was a
co-creator of the Playboy Penthouse television series, which in turn
launched the Playboy Clubs.
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