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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>John Shipman Springer</b> (* <a href="25._April" title="25. April">25. April</a> <a href="1916" title="1916">1916</a> in <a href="Rochester_(New_York)" title="Rochester (New York)">Rochester</a>, <a href="New_York_(Bundesstaat)" title="New York (Bundesstaat)">New York</a>; † <a href="30._Oktober" title="30. Oktober">30. Oktober</a> <a href="2001" title="2001">2001</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Presseagent, Filmhistoriker und Schriftsteller.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben">Leben</h2></div>
<p>Springer hat an der <a href="Marquette_University" title="Marquette University">Marquette University</a> bis 1939 Journalismus studiert, war im Zweiten Weltkrieg Soldat und begann seine Karriere dann als Journalist, der über Filme und Theater schrieb. Seit 1946 leitete er die Presseabteilung von <a href="RKO_Pictures" title="RKO Pictures">RKO Pictures</a> und von 1957 bis 1960 die von <a href="20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a>.
</p><p>Nach einer kurzen Partnerschaft mit <a href="Arthur_Jacobs" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Jacobs">Arthur Jacobs</a> gründete Springer 1963 sein eigenes Publicity-Unternehmen, <i>John Springer Associates</i>. Einer seiner ersten Kunden war <a href="Richard_Burton" title="Richard Burton">Richard Burton</a>.
</p><p>Zu den <a href="Hollywood" title="Hollywood">Hollywood</a>-Persönlichkeiten, die Springer vertrat, gehörten <a href="Samuel_Goldwyn" title="Samuel Goldwyn">Samuel Goldwyn</a>, <a href="Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a>, <a href="Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>, <a href="Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a>, <a href="Marlene_Dietrich" title="Marlene Dietrich">Marlene Dietrich</a>, <a href="David_O._Selznick" title="David O. Selznick">David O. Selznick</a>, <a href="Joan_Crawford" title="Joan Crawford">Joan Crawford</a>, <a href="Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a>, <a href="Myrna_Loy" title="Myrna Loy">Myrna Loy</a>, <a href="Rosalind_Russell" title="Rosalind Russell">Rosalind Russell</a>, <a href="Bette_Davis" title="Bette Davis">Bette Davis</a>, <a href="Sylvia_Sidney" title="Sylvia Sidney">Sylvia Sidney</a>, <a href="Ginger_Rogers" title="Ginger Rogers">Ginger Rogers</a>, <a href="Maureen_O%E2%80%99Sullivan_(Schauspielerin)" title="Maureen O’Sullivan (Schauspielerin)">Maureen O’Sullivan</a>, <a href="Robert_Mitchum" title="Robert Mitchum">Robert Mitchum</a>, <a href="Montgomery_Clift" title="Montgomery Clift">Montgomery Clift</a>, <a href="Tony_Randall" title="Tony Randall">Tony Randall</a>, <a href="Lana_Turner" title="Lana Turner">Lana Turner</a>, <a href="Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a>, <a href="Marilyn_Monroe" title="Marilyn Monroe">Marilyn Monroe</a>, <a href="Grace_Kelly" title="Grace Kelly">Grace Kelly</a>, <a href="Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a>, <a href="Debbie_Reynolds" title="Debbie Reynolds">Debbie Reynolds</a>, <a href="Shirley_MacLaine" title="Shirley MacLaine">Shirley MacLaine</a>, <a href="Al_Pacino" title="Al Pacino">Al Pacino</a>, <a href="Mia_Farrow" title="Mia Farrow">Mia Farrow</a> und <a href="Ed_Harris" title="Ed Harris">Ed Harris</a>. Springer galt als ein besonnener Presseagent, der das Privatleben seiner Kunden mit Diskretion behandelte und zu schützen versuchte. Durch seine Arbeit besaß er eine der weltgrößten privaten Sammlungen von Fotos von Film- und Theaterpersönlichkeiten. Die Sammlung ist heute Teil des New Yorker <a href="Bettmann-Archiv" title="Bettmann-Archiv">Bettmann-Archivs</a>.
</p><p>Neben Filmpersönlichkeiten betreute Springer auch Filme (wie <i><a href="Wer_hat_Angst_vor_Virginia_Woolf%3F_(Film)" title="Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf? (Film)">Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf?</a></i>, 1966; <i><a href="Bonnie_und_Clyde_(Film)" title="Bonnie und Clyde (Film)">Bonnie und Clyde</a></i>, 1967; <i><a href="Die_Reifepr%C3%BCfung" title="Die Reifeprüfung">Die Reifeprüfung</a></i>, 1967; <i><a href="Asphalt-Cowboy" title="Asphalt-Cowboy">Asphalt-Cowboy</a></i>, 1969) und <a href="Broadway_(Theater)" title="Broadway (Theater)">Broadwayshows</a>.
</p><p>Springer war seit 1953 mit der Schauspielerin und Sängerin June Reimer alias Monica Lane verheiratet und hatte mit ihr drei Kinder. 1992 zog er sich aus dem Geschäft weitgehend zurück.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publikationen_von_John_Springer">Publikationen von John Springer</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing! A Pictoral History of the Movie Musical</i>, Cadillac Publishing, 1966</li>
<li><i>The Fondas: The Films and Careers of Henry, Jane and Peter Fonda</i>, Citadel Press, 1970, ISBN 0-8065-0014-X</li>
<li><i>They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars and Starlets of the 1930's</i>, Secaucus, 1974</li>
<li><i>Forgotten Films to Remember: And a Brief History of Fifty Years of the American Talking Picture</i>, The Citadel Press, 1980</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819732/">John Springer</a> bei <a href="IMDb" title="IMDb">IMDb</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/movies/john-springer-85-hollywood-publicist-dies.html?pagewanted=1">John Springer, 85, Hollywood Publicist, Dies</a> New York Times</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-02-me-64574-story.html">John Springer, 85; Press Agent to an Illustrious Array of Entertainers</a> Los Angeles Times</li></ul>
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