Matt Gregory Photograph Collection (PH-00308)

Las Vegas, Nevada producer, manager, and agent Matthias Gregory Gluchowski (naturalized as Matt Gregory) was born November 21, 1921 in Araucaria, Parana, Brazil. He was the son of an aristocratic Polish diplomat serving as Ambassador to Brazil. Gregory was raised in southern Poland on a large estate that bordered Czechoslovakia. He was educated at the Marian Fathers Lyceum in Warsaw, Poland, and later came to New York during his father's tenure as diplomat to the United States.

Gregory attended Amherst University. He returned to Poland but he shortly after fled to Italy following the German invasion in 1939. He later enlisted in the Polish Air Force. He returned to the United States after the war, where he met people in the entertainment industry including Frank Sinatra and millionaire Reg Newton. Newton, in turn, introduced him to other industry professionals. This led to Gregory's employment as a script writer for radio and television in New York, where he worked for the Milton Blackstone Agency. He applied for citizenship and was naturalized as a United States citizen in 1955 with the name Matt G. Gregory.

In 1949 Gregory moved to San Francisco, California, and continued to work in television. In 1953 Moe Dalitz, one of the partners at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn Hotel and Country Club, invited Gregory to Las Vegas, Nevada. Dalitz recruited Gregory to work in public relations for a project the owners were involved with, the Showboat Hotel and Casino. Gregory left the Showboat in 1956 to pursue a career as a personal manager, agent, and producer. He recruited and developed young artists including Marlene Dietrich, Sandler and Young, Lee Greenwood, Jerry Fielding, and Bill Reddie and the Characters. Gregory also produced a number of shows in Las Vegas, Nevada and in other locations, ranging from large productions to smaller revues. He had a reputation of creating the "midi" and "mini" revues, bringing the talent, costumes, and flair of large shows to smaller venues.

Some of his shows were staged in France, Sweden, and Japan, as well as Las Vegas, Reno, and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Gregory produced the world's largest fashion show for the Lion's Club Convention held in Las Vegas. He also produced the "Las Vegas Gambit" television game show. He continued producing and managing until his retirement in the mid-1980s.

He married Alisa Winton, a dancer and native of England, in December 1964. They had one son, Adam Casimer Gregory-Glochowski, in 1965. Gregory resided in Las Vegas until his death on July 29, 2000.

Source:

Hast, Adale. “Matthias Gregory Gluchowski,” Who’s Who in the World, 7th ed. Marquis Who's Who, Inc., 1984.