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Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg Biography
The three-thousand pound gorilla among Hollywood moguls made his first big splash in the popular culture with a movie about a great white shark. In Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg managed to set a new record for box office earnings and change the way Hollywood released and marketed its "event films" to the public. The movie ushered in a whole new era ruled by the ubiquitous big budget summer blockbuster. It was a milieu in which Spielberg was
destined to succeed. Steven Spielberg was born December 18, 1947 in Cincinnati Ohio. An avid lover of the movies he began shooting his first short films as child. The compulsion to shoot would stay with him throughout his life driving him to study film at California State University. He dropped out before graduating to gain experience in directing for television shows. After directing his first feature film, 1974's "The Sugarland Express" he was through with television.