Jack Cummings
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John "Jack" Cummings (February 16, 1905 – April 28, 1989) was an American film producer and director. He was the second husband of Betty Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern.
Cummings spent most of his career at his uncle Louis B. Mayer's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he began work in the 1920s. Mayer started his nephew out as an office boy and expected him to work his way up through the ranks.
Cummings became a staff producer at MGM 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. Cummings remained at MGM even after his uncle was fired from the studio in 1951, working with talent such as the Marx Brothers, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and Fred Astaire and producing some of the era's best-known musicals, including 1953's Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in 1954, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He left MGM 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-Can. In 1964, he returned to MGM one last time to produce the Elvis Presley musical Viva Las Vegas. Other credits included Easy to Wed, It 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), as well as a younger half brother Leonard 'Sonny' Cummings. Mr. Cummings was survived by his four daughters, Julie Cummings Siff, of Manhattan, Kathy Cummings St. Aubin, of Los Angeles, Linda Kern Cummings, of Danville, Ky., and Carla Luisa Cummings, of Los Angeles.

Operation Teahouse

Viva Las Vegas

Pipe Dreams

Can-Can

Interrupted Melody

I Dood It

The Winning Ticket

Bachelor Flat

Give a Girl a Break

Over the Counter

Nertsery Rhymes

Beer and Pretzels

Plane Nuts

The Second Time Around

Crazy House

Swing High

The Blue Angel

Texas Carnival

Bathing Beauty

Broadway Melody of 1940

Honolulu

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Easy to Wed

Neptune's Daughter

Rose Marie

Kiss Me Kate

Hello Pop

Gems of M-G-M

Three Little Words

Two Weeks with Love

Lovely to Look At

The Teahouse of the August Moon

Broadway Rhythm

Ship Ahoy

Go West

Listen, Darling

Broadway Melody of 1938

The Stratton Story

The Romance of Rosy Ridge

Yellow Jack

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Many Rivers to Cross

Born to Dance

Sombrero

Jail Birds of Paradise
