Word: decca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picked up the nickname the Octopus for controlling more than half the top stars in the business, including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Stewart and Bette Davis. Wasserman became MCA's top agent. As president of the company in 1949, Wasserman began producing television shows. In 1962 he bought Decca Records, which owned Universal Pictures, and dropped the agency business...