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| birth_name = Solomon Max Wurtzel
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1890|9|12}}
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|4|9|1890|9|12}}
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| resting_place = [[Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Culver City]],
| nationality = American
| other_names =
| occupation = Film producer
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| spouse = Marian Bodner (m. 1912)
| children = 2
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==Life and career==
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Born in
In 1911, Wurtzel hired [[Alan E. Freedman]] as a bookkeeper for Fox's fledgling film processing laboratory. Freedman would remain for over 50 years, eventually turning the operation into the gargantuan "[[DeLuxe Color|Color by DeLuxe]]" [[DeLuxe Laboratories]].
In 1917, Fox sent Wurtzel to California to oversee the studio's
During his 34 year career at Fox and 20th Century Fox, Wurtzel supervised
He discovered young director [[John Ford]] who later went on to earn 4 [[Academy Award]]s. He also discovered and made a star of famous
Wurtzel cast dancer [[Rita Hayworth]] (credited under her given name Rita Cansino) in her first film role, the 1935 production ''[[Dante's Inferno (1935 film)|Dante's Inferno]]''. He gave an unknown [[Marilyn Monroe]] her first walk-on in his 1947 production of ''[[Dangerous Years]]''.
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==Personal life and death==
Wurtzel married Marian Bodner, who immigrated to New York from a small Polish [[shtetl]], in 1912. They had two children Paul Wurtzel, who worked in his father's production company Sol M. Wurtzel Productions and went on to become a prolific assistant director for multiple television series
Ill for many years following a stroke in 1953, Wurtzel died at his home in Hollywood on April 9, 1958.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite news |title=Sol M. Wurtzer, 67, Long a Film-Maker |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E1DB1139EF3BBC4852DFB2668383649EDE |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2016-07-23 }}</ref> [[John Ford]] and Rabbi Max Nussbaum delivered eulogies at his funeral at Temple Israel of Hollywood attended by 400 mourners. Wurtzel was interred in the [[Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Culver City, California]].▼
Wurtzel cofounded and served as the first President of [[Temple Israel of Hollywood]].<ref>[http://jewishjournal.com/current_edition/129622/ Jewish Journal: "Paul Wurtzel, Son of Hollywood Legendary Producer Sol Wurtzel, Dies at 92" by Rabbi John Rosove] June 3, 2014</ref>
▲Ill for many years following a stroke in 1953, Wurtzel died at his home in Hollywood on April 9, 1958.<ref name="NYT Obit">{{cite news |title=Sol M. Wurtzer, 67, Long a Film-Maker |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E1DB1139EF3BBC4852DFB2668383649EDE |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 10, 1958 |access-date=2016-07-23 }}</ref> [[John Ford]] and Rabbi Max Nussbaum delivered eulogies at his funeral at Temple Israel of Hollywood attended by 400 mourners. Wurtzel was interred in the [[Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Culver City, California]].
[[Sol Wurtzel House|The Wurtzel-Neff Estate]] on Bellagio Road in [[Bel Air, Los Angeles]] was designed by [[Wallace Neff]] and completed in 1932.<ref name="NeffGallery1998">{{cite book|author1=Wallace Neff|author2=Virginia Steele Scott Gallery|author3=Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery|title=Wallace Neff 1895-1982: The Romance of Regional Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NmFIAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Hennessey & Ingalls|isbn=978-0-940512-13-9|page=130}}</ref>
==Selected filmography==
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* {{Find a Grave|7966922}}
* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0853217 ''Sol Wurtzel: The Forgotten Mogul'']
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