William Hawks
William Bellinger Hawks was an American film producer.
Career
Hawks attended Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key and graduated in 1923. In his early career, Hawks was a stockbroker. By the early 1930s, Hawks was a Hollywood talent agent and, as such, brought novelist William Faulkner to his brother Howard Hawks' attention in 1932, becoming Faulkner's Hollywood agent.He created United Producers Corporation in 1940 with Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Irene Dunne, Anatole Litvak, and Lewis Milestone. They intended to produce ten films for RKO Pictures. My Life with Caroline was the first of the intended series, thus Hawks became a film producer.
Personal life
Hawks married actress Bessie Love at St. James' Episcopal Church in South Pasadena, California, on December 27, 1929. Mary Astor, Carmel Myers, and Norma Shearer were her bridesmaids, and Howard Hawks and MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg ushered. Mary Astor was William's sister-in-law, married to brother Kenneth Hawks. Their reception was held at the Ambassador Hotel.Hawks and Love then lived at the Havenhurst Apartments in Hollywood. They had a daughter, Patricia Hawks, who had some bit parts in 1952 movies. They divorced in 1936.
He married actress Virginia Walker in late June 1938 in Mexico. She had played Miss Alice Swallow in the 1938 comedy film Bringing Up Baby, her first film role. They divorced in 1942.
He was married to Boston socialite Frances Koshland Judge on October 3, 1951, in West Los Angeles by Municipal Judge Louis Kaufmann.
Hawks died in Santa Monica, California, of a respiratory illness, on January 10, 1969.