- Researched real crimes to have material for his chronicles and stories for filmmakers, and was helped by such friends as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz, who left him an armored car--a white Rolls-Royce--in his will.
- From 1943 to 1945 he was a war correspondent in the Pacific.
- His formal education ended when he was expelled from high school aged 15.
- Mark Hellinger was one of the first Broadway columnists. He was hired at the New York Daily News about Nov. 1923. About December 1929, he went to work for William Randolph Hearst's New York Daily Mirror.
- As a newspaperman, reportedly had 18,000,000 readers.
- A New York Theatre, built in 1930 at Broadway and 51st Street and originally named the Hollywood Theatre, was renamed the Mark Hellinger Theatre on January 22, 1949. Among the successful Broadway shows that played there were "My Fair Lady", "The Sound of Music", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and "Jesus Christ Superstar". In 1989, the theatre was sold and is now the Times Square Church.
- His parents were Paul (? - 1936) and Millie Hellinger (? - 1935). His father was a prosperous real estate lawyer. He also had a younger brother, Monroe Bert Hellinger (1913-1939), who, like Mark Hellinger, died at an early age from heart disease. Mark Hellinger's wife, Gladys Glad (her real name), was a former Ziegfeld girl who gave up performing when they married.
- Specialized in the sentimental, as a writer.
- Richard Brooks' novel "The Producer" is based on Hellinger's life.
- In 1938, his annual salary as a producer at Warner Bros. was $130,000. By 1945, it had risen to $200,000.
- Had suffered a severe heart attack early in 1947.
- Survived by his wife, Gladys Glad, and two adopted children: Mark, 6, and Gladys, 5.
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