Lloyd Rosamond(1910-1964)
- Producer
- Writer
Lloyd was born in 1910 in New York City, the son of David Rosenmond, a
wholesale clothier. His father later changed the family name from
"Rosenmond" to "Rosamond" though that change was never confirmed
legally. When Lloyd was 19, his family lost most of its money in the
1929 stock market crash, and he left college in order to work full time
as a comedy writer. He wrote gags for vaudeville comedians, including
Bert Lahr, and later helped Fanny Brice create her radio character,
"Baby Snooks." He joined Frank and Anne Hummert's Air Features radio
production company and became the executive in charge of production for
18 successful radio soap operas, including "Our Gal Sunday," "Amanda of
Honeymoon Hll," "Stella Dallas," "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife," "The
Romance of Helen Trent," and "Lorenzo Jones." He married actress Miriam
Battista in 1948, after the death of her previous husband, author
Russell Maloney. Lloyd later legally adopted Miriam and Russell's
daughter Amelia. In 1960, after radio soap operas had been mostly
replaced by television soap operas, Lloyd moved with his wife and
daughter to Los Angeles, where he became the associate producer for
20th Century Fox's "Peyton Place" television series. He died on August
24, 1964, of a heart attack.