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Carl Laemmle arrived in the U. S. from Laupheim, Germany when he was 17. For the next 22 years he struggled manfully in the clothing business at Oshkosh, Wis., managed to save up $2,500, In 1906, when he was 39, encouraged by an advertising man named Robert Cochrane, he opened a Chicago nickelodeon called The White Front. Six months later, he had a string of them and his own film exchange. From 1909 to 1914, Laemmle and his famed Independent Motion Pictures Co. ("IMP") fought the patents company which then threatened to get control of the industry...
Carl Laemmle (pronounced Lemmly), 64, president of Universal Pictures Corp., born of Jewish parents in Laupheim, Germany, seemed at first destined for a mercantile rather than an artistic career. For his 17th birthday he was given a steerage ticket to the U. S. From Manhattan he headed west to Chicago, thence to Oshkosh, Wis., where, he made a small competency and reputation in the clothing business. At 39, he branched out for himself, bought a Chicago nickelodeon (primitive cinema theater) and broke into the entertainment racket. From that out, his rise was picturesquely, Algeresquely steady. Motion Picture Patents Co. tried...
Playwright John Drinkwater (Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee) said he would write a biography of Cineman Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures Corp.), native of Laupheim, Germany...
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