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Lew Wasserman


 

Lew Wasserman (March 15, 1913 - June 3, 2002) was a Hollywood agent and studio executive credited with first creating and then taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. Born the son of Russian Jewish immigrants in Chicago, Illinois, Wasserman started out as a booking agent for the Music Corporation of America under Dr. Jules Stein, its founder. Under his watch MCA branched out into representing actors and actresses in addition to musicians and in the process created the studio system driving up prices for studios.

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