The Physicists - 1994 Pomona College Theatre Department - Lighting Design by Marc D. Broidy

 

Last Known Photo of Babe Ruth

 A Dying Babe Ruth In Memorial Hospital July 29, 1948

New York – Babe’s Most Recent Picture – This picture, taken at Memorial Hospital here July 29, is believed to be the last picture of the baseball idol. It was made just before the Babe’s most recent relapse. With him is Steve Broidy of Allied Artists movie studio, who is presenting Ruth with a check for the Ruth Foundation for underprivileged children. The homerun king’s condition today was critical.  photo – AP, August 11, 1948

Dr. Ian Jay Kaufman - Obituary

 New York Times - Obituary

KAUFMAN--Dr. Ian Jay. Dr. Ian Jay Kaufman, age 65, died October 3, 2005 after a prolonged battle with metastatic melanoma. Dr. Kaufman is survived by his sister Caron Kaufman Broidy and brother-in-law Steven D. Broidy of Los Angeles, as well as his nephew Marc D. Broidy of New York City. After a 40 year career practicing international trademark and patent law with the firm of Ladas and Parry, he retired as the Managing Partner in 2003. Dr. Kaufman was a world renowned attorney, having been appointed as a delegate and lecturer for many international meetings and conferences. With a passion for travel, he enjoyed fine cuisine and was a patron of the arts. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Angeles Clinic and Research Institute, attention: Dr. Steven O'Day, Director, 11818 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA. 90025.

 

Samuel “Steve” Broidy (June 14, 1905 – April 28, 1991) 

1962 Jean Hersholt Award 

Acceptance Speech

Steve Broidy (born Samuel Broidy) was born in Malden, Massachusetts, and attended Boston University. His entrance into the film business was as a salesman for an independent company in 1925, and he moved to Universal Pictures in 1926 and then Warner Bros. in 1931. He was hired by Monogram Pictures in 1933 as a sales manager, and by 1940 was on the board of directors as VP and general sales manager. By 1945 he had been named President. Broidy presided over Monogram during its metamorphosis into Allied Artists, a change that came about because he believed that the Monogram name had for too long been associated with low-budget, low-quality productions, and he wanted to upgrade the company's reputation. He remained president until 1965, when he left to become an independent producer. In 1962 he was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Steve Broidy, former head of Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists and the philanthropist and humanitarian who crafted the merger of Cedars of Lebanon and Mt. Sinai hospitals into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, died Sunday.

Medical center spokesman Ron Wise said Broidy, the founding life chairman of Cedars-Sinai, was 86. The longtime Dodgers fan suffered a heart attack at Dodger Stadium while watching a ballgame. He was pronounced dead at County-USC Medical Center.

Born in Massachusetts and forced from college by the Depression, Broidy began in the film industry as a salesman. He worked his way up through the industry, moving to Los Angeles in 1940 and taking over Monogram and Allied Artists in 1945. In 1965, he formed his production firm, Motion Pictures International.

If thousands saw his pictures over the years, thousands more in this city benefitted from his fund-raising and organizational abilities.

In the 1960s, Broidy first decried the “duplication of medical effort” at Los Angeles’ two leading Jewish hospitals and led merger efforts, working long hours to raise the money to meld them into a single multipurpose, multimillion-dollar center. It took 15 years before the first patient was admitted April 3, 1976.

His charitable and professional efforts produced dozens of awards and honorary degrees, including “Pioneer of the Year” in 1959 from the Motion Picture Pioneers, the American Judaism Award from the United American Hebrew Assn. in 1963 (a first for someone from the West Coast), and that same year the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

He served on the boards of Union Bank, the Motion Picture Academy, the Jewish Federation Council, the Salvation Army, Claremont Men’s College, Loyola Marymount University and others.

Survivors include his daughter, Eleanor Sattinger, sons Arthur and Steven Broidy, and six grandchildren.