What is Leon Schlesinger?
{{refimprove|date=January 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Leon Schlesinger | image = Leon Schlesinger portrait ca. 1917.jpg | caption = Schlesinger in 1917 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1884|5|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|12|25|1884|5|20|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles]], California, United States | resting_place = [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]], Los Angeles, California, United States | occupation = Film producer | years_active = 1919–1949 | employer = | spouse = {{marriage|[[Berenice K. Schlesinger]]|1909}} }} '''Leon Schlesinger''' (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American movie producer. He founded [[Warner Bros. Cartoons#1933–1944: Leon Schlesinger Productions|Leon Schlesinger Productions]], which later became the [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]] studio, during the [[Golden Age of American animation]]. == Warner's Westerns == Schlesinger produced six [[B-movie]] [[Western movie|Westerns]] in the 1930s for Warners starring [[John Wayne]]. * ''[[Haunted Gold]]'' (1932) * ''[[Ride Him Cowboy]]'' (1932) * ''[[The Big Stampede]]'' (1932) * ''[[The Telegraph Trail]]'' (1933) * ''[[Somewhere in Sonora]]'' (1933) * ''[[The Man from Monterey]]'' (1933) == Notes == {{notelist}} == References == {{Reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0772266}} * {{Find a Grave|8776|Leon Schlesinger}} {{Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schlesinger, Leon}} [[Category:1884 births]] [[Category:1949 deaths]] [[Category:19th-century American people]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Buffalo, New York]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Los Angeles]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Businesspeople from Philadelphia]] [[Category:Movie producers from California]] [[Category:Movie producers from Penn