Jerry Della Femina
Restaurateur, Author
1936 –
Who is Jerry Della Femina?
Jerry Della Femina is an American advertising executive and restaurateur. Starting from a poor Italian background in Brooklyn, he eventually became chairman of Della Femina Travisano & Partners, an agency which he founded with Ron Travisano in the 1960s. Over the next two decades they grew the company into a major advertising house that was billing $250 million per year, and had 300 employees and offices in both New York and Los Angeles. Della Femina is known for his larger than life personality and colorful language and was referred to as a "'Madman' of Madison Avenue". In 1970, he wrote a book about the advertising industry, humorously titled, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War. It became a cult bestseller, described by The Guardian as "one of the defining books about advertising", and eventually inspired the television series Mad Men.
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- Born
- Jul 22, 1936
Brooklyn - Parents
- Spouses
- Judy Licht
(1983 - )
- Judy Licht
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Brooklyn College
- Lafayette High School
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Coney Island
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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