He remembered seeing a beautiful, wasp-waisted woman win first prize at a masquerade ball dressed as a ghoul.
[2] By the late 1950s Stromberg was a protégé of James Aubrey and followed him to CBS when he became top programming executive there, involved with such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies, Hogan's Heroes, Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, and Lost in Space.
[3] Due to corporate in-fighting, he brought about the cancellation of The Judy Garland Show, and together with Aubrey was ousted from CBS in 1965.
"[5] Following that project, he began work on a made-for-TV film adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which was never completed.
)[6] In 1980 he executive produced The Curse of King Tut's Tomb and at the time of his death held the movie option for Robert Bloch's book Night of the Ripper.