Jack Irving Schwarz (December 19, 1896 – January 6, 1987) was an American independent producer of low-budget feature films in the 1940s and 1950s.
He operated a small chain of movie theaters in Kentucky and Indiana in the 1930s,[1] and decided to enter the more lucrative field of film production in 1942.
He made some of the company's better films, including Baby Face Morgan with Richard Cromwell (1942), The Payoff with Lee Tracy (1942), Dixie Jamboree with Frances Langford (1944), Tiger Fangs with Frank Buck (1944), and the Cinecolor fantasy The Enchanted Forest with Harry Davenport (1945).
He later entered into releasing arrangements with fellow exhibitor-turned-producer Robert L. Lippert, publicity man-turned-producer Edward Finney, and PRC's successor Eagle-Lion Films.
[4] Schwarz was married to redheaded actress Marie Louise Talbott, who divorced him in 1952, stating in court that he stayed out all night and came home with lipstick on his clothes.