Edythe Landau born Edythe Rudolph was an American film and television producer and executive. She was one of the few women producing films, working outside the studio system with her husband, Ely Landau, in the 70s. Her most popular films include such films as Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Pawnbroker, King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis, The Chosen. Landau was born in Wilkes-Barre and attended
Wilkes University with a bachelor’s degree in education in the late 1940s. Subsequentl... moreEdythe Landau born Edythe Rudolph was an American film and television producer and executive. She was one of the few women producing films, working outside the studio system with her husband, Ely Landau, in the 70s. Her most popular films include such films as Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Pawnbroker, King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis, The Chosen. Landau was born in Wilkes-Barre and attended
Wilkes University with a bachelor’s degree in education in the late 1940s. Subsequently she moved to New York where she got work as an assistance at a television and radio production company called National Telefilm Associates. It is there that she met her husband Ely Landau, one of the companies' founders. Landau eventually worked her way up the company's ladder and ended up being the executive vice president. Landau began producing films with her husband in the 1970s. They produced a lot of films some of which won awards. In 1982 Landau graduated from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law. After she retired she became a poet.
