Background
Abe was the seventh son of "a Yiddish-speaking animal skinner who had fled Russia in 1889 to escape the pogroms and found work in the Gansevoort Street meatpacking district by the docks of the Lower West Side.
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Abe Lastfogel
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Born in 1898, the boy had grown up in a cold-water flat on East Forty-ninth Street. He was a scappy kid, compact and solidly built.."
The William Morris Agency hired Abe Lastfogel in 1912 as an office boy. Finding success in the rapidly growing firm, Lastfogel ultimately moved to Hollywood in 1932 to manage World Marketing Alliance"s Los Angeles office.
He was Chairman of William Morris.
United Service Organizations Shows
During World World War II, Lastfogel served as President of the United Service Organizations-Camp Shows, which produced wartime entertainment events featuring more than 7,000 performers—including Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore and James Stewart—seen by audiences of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines around the world estimated to total two hundred million.
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