Grover Asmus was another personality of entertainment industry; however, he was famous mainly as the husband of the actress Louise Currie and as the figure who worked in business part in Hollywood in the period of the early and the middle of the twentieth century.
Although his name does not ring a bell as those of other legends of his time, he was a very influential man in the industry as well as having a love affair with Louise Currie.
Early Life
Grover Asmus was born in early part of twentieth century in USA. As for his upbringing, little is currently public knowledge of his childhood years save that he had an early fascination with the entertainment business.
Asmus was more interested in the business and organizational angles of the industry that later formed a part of his career. Born in a period that transition from silent films to sound films.
Asmus saw far from Hollywood grow from an industry that was in its infancy into the international power house of entertainment that it is today. It would also prepare him early in his exposure to the kind of environment he was going to face at his later stages and the types of relationships he was likely going to build throughout his line of work.
Career
Asmus established himself on the darker side of Tinseltown, with his career mostly revolving in movie distribution and promotion in the formative years of the picture trade and its glamorous culture. His job was to liaise between studios and theaters and playing a part in making sure that movies get to the people.
His working experience was characterized by sound knowledge of the industry’s economic sides and good personal skills as a businessman and manager who understood the network of relations between studios, distributors and theaters. This expertise made him a famous personality in Hollywood business fraternity despite his absence in ‘lime light’ like many celebrities of this time.
Spouse: Louise Currie
Louise Currie a Hollywood actress of the golden age was Grover Asmus’s wife and this union gave him a closer encounter to fame then the job he performed most of the time. Louise Currie was featured in many films in the 1940s and 1950s.
It became one of the industry’s rare success stories, unlike many other marriages pervasively present in the show business. Asmus stood by Currie while she performed, at the same time, he had his own work with ownerships within the acting sector but also in the business.
Louise Currie’s movies include a few big movies like “Citizen Kane” (1941) and lots of serials and B-movies which were produced during those time. Sometimes her husband Asmus would give a good advice on business matters regarding her career in Hollywood.
Grover Asmus can be considered a significant character in the Twentieth Century America, particularly the Hollywood golden age, both in terms of its economic structure and social relations having provided for his wife, Louise Currie, throughout his own successful career.
