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.
