Louis Sarecky


Louis Sarecky was an American film producer and screenwriter at the very beginning of the sound era of motion pictures. Born in 1886 in Odessa in what was then the Russian Empire, he began his career in the last year of silent film, 1928, working on five films that year, four as screenwriter and one as producer. While he is only credited with working on 26 films, some of those were among the most popular films at that time: The Vagabond Lover, Rudy Vallée's screen debut; The Cuckoos, starring the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey; and Friends and Lovers in 1931, starring Adolphe Menjou and Laurence Olivier. His crowning achievement would be the Academy Award-winning 1931 film Cimarron. Sarecky was the associate producer on the film, as well as helping adapt the screenplay, although he was uncredited for the latter. Since the film won the Oscar for both outstanding production and best adapted screenplay, he would have the dubious distinction of contributing in both those fields, yet not receiving an Academy Award himself.
Sarecky was the brother to the more well-known writer and producer, Barney Sarecky. Louis would die in Los Angeles California in 1946.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1928Stocks and BlondesProducer
1928BlockadeScreenplay
1928Hey Rube!Screenplay
1928His Last HaulOriginal story
1928Legionnaires in ParisOriginal story
1929Night ParadeAssociate producer
1929Street GirlAssociate producer
1929Tanned LegsProducer
1929'Associate Producer
1929Love in the DesertOriginal story
1930'Associate Producer
1930LeatherneckingAssociate Producer
1930Shooting StraightProducer
1931CimarronAssociate Producer, screenplay
1931Are These Our Children?Associate Producer
1931Friends and LoversProducer
1931Everything's RosieAssociate Producer
1931Kept HusbandsAssociate Producer, screenplay
1931'Associate Producer
1931Secret ServiceAssociate Producer
1931'Associate Producer
1931Young Donovan's KidAssociate Producer
1932Associate Producer
1932Girl of the RioAssociate Producer
1934Gridiron FlashAssociate Producer
1941Kansas CycloneOriginal story