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