Background
He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern.
He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern.
Cummings became a staff producer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, where he worked in the B-feature unit for two years. In 1936, he produced the extravagant Cole Porter musical Born to Dance, which established his reputation as a respected producer. He left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to become an independent producer affiliated with Twentieth Century-Fox and produced the 1959 remake of The Blue Angel and the 1960 movie version of the Abe Burrows-Cole Porter Broadway musical Can-Canada
In 1964, he returned to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer one last time to produce the Elvis Presley musical Viva Las Vegas.
Other credits included Easy to Wed, lieutenant Happened in Brooklyn, Three Little Words, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Interrupted Melody, and The Teahouse of the August Moon. Jack Cummings was the son of Ida Mayer Cummings, sister of Louis B Mayer.
He had two sisters, Ruth (married to film director Roy Rowland) and Mitzi (married to film producer Sol Baer Fielding).