David Oppenheim Musical Artist - Born 13 April 1922 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

Died 14 November 2007 · Manhattan, New York, USA (natural causes)

Birth name David Jerome Oppenheim

Mini Bio David Oppenheim was born on April 13, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. David is known for Rebecca (2020), Riverrun (1968) and New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958). David was married to Pat Jaffe, Ellen Adler and Judy Holliday. David died on November 14, 2007 in Manhattan, New York, USA.

Family Spouses

Pat Jaffe (1987 - November 14, 2007) his death

Ellen Adler (1958 - 1976) divorced, 2 children

Judy Holliday (January 5, 1948 - March 1, 1958) divorced, 1 child M1. Jonathan Oppenheim (10 November 1952)

Trivia

Became a father for the 1st time at age 30 when his 1st ex-wife Judy Holliday gave birth to their son Jonathan Oppenheim on November 10, 1952.

He was the son of Julia (Nurko) and Louis Oppenheim, who owned a department store. His father was a Latvian Jewish immigrant. His mother was born in Michigan, to Russian Jewish parents.

David Jerome Oppenheim (April 13, 1922 – November 14, 2007) was an American clarinetist, and classical music and television producer. Oppenheim directed the Masterworks division of Columbia Records from 1950 to 1959. During this time, he worked with numerous major figures in the music world including Igor Stravinsky, with whom he formed a friendship, later producing for him.

Personal life As a young man in New York in the early 1940s, Oppenheim was a close friend and sometime lover of Leonard Bernstein. Later, Oppenheim was married three times.

His first marriage was to actress Judy Holliday, from 1948 to 1957. Oppenheim struggled with his sexual orientation; Bernstein, a mutual friend, suggested that Oppenheim marry Holliday as a beard. (In 1943, Bernstein wrote in a letter to Oppenheim, then in the U.S. Army, that he had thought of marrying Holliday himself.) Oppenheim and Holliday had a son, Jonathan, who became a film editor whose work includes Paris Is Burning, Children Underground, and Arguing the World.

Oppenheim's second marriage (1957–76) was to Ellen Adler, daughter of Stella Adler. They had a daughter, Sara, and a son, Thomas, who became president and artistic director of Stella Adler Studio of Acting. He married Patricia Jaffe in 1987.

Oppenheim died in New York City in 2007.