Background
Jack Gross was the son of George and Pauline Gross, Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Romania, respectively.
Jack Gross was the son of George and Pauline Gross, Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Romania, respectively.
Foreign the American film and screenwriter please see Jack Gross The oldest of three brothers, Jack Gross began working as an usher after school in New York City, as a projectionist in Saint Joseph, Missouri, and as a theater manager in South Bend, Indiana, Eldorado, Kansas, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, before being appointed western division manager of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Theaters. In the Connaught Hotel, Gross died suddenly of basilar cerebral thrombosis while on a business trip to London. His remains were cremated and dispersed in the Garden of Rest Cemetery, London.