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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Deanna Durbin, 22, who sang Universal Pictures out of bankruptcy to the tune of a $20,000,000 box office in five years: Naval Reserve Lieut. Vaughn Paul, 28, onetime assistant cinema director; after two and a half years of marriage, for each the first; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...Kalee Ltd., manufacturer of 90% of the cinema and production equipment made in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Cinemonopoly | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...General Film Distributors, a subsidiary of General Film Finance-Rank's favorite vehicle for expanding his stake in British cinema-which distributes more films than any other single U.S. or British company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Cinemonopoly | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Rank's 24 cinema companies are also variously hooked up with big U.S. producers. M.G.M. and Fox own 49% of his Gaumont-British Pictures; United Artists has an important interest in Odeon; General Film distributes all of Universal's pictures in Britain. So far as the rest of British production is concerned, just about all Rank lacks of a complete cinemonopoly is the ?15,000,000 Associated British Pictures which has some 500 theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Cinemonopoly | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Knowing these views, U.S. cinema gossip columns blackened with rumors of Rank deals with Paramount, with United Artists, with R.K.O., with everyone & anyone who might listen to smooth talk from Morris Ernst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Cinemonopoly | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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