Word: merian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change in the producers' lineup was announced. Finding his Pioneer Pictures handicapped by producing color pictures only, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney finally merged it with Selznick International, David Selznick heading the combine with Merian Cooper and Henry Ginsberg at his side. All releases will be through United Artists, Mr. Whitney's contract with RKO-Radio being allowed to lapse...
...Merian C. Cooper, then executive producer on the lot, also saw Astaire's possibilities. Mr. Astaire will be glad to tell you that I accurately predicted to him in New York, before he ever came out here, what his future in pictures would...
Bride in 1931. Jock Whitney's literary cronies are Donald Ogden Stewart and Robert Benchley, who spend most of their time in Hollywood. In Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...
...real people as it does of cartoons, whether it will be sufficiently appealing to make up for its expense, are two of the questions which Hollywood will be glad to have answered by the Whitney investment. First Pioneer Picture will be made at RKO's Hollywood studios by Merian C. Cooper, distributed through...
...might seem that any creature answering the description of Kong would be despicable and terrifying. Such is not the case. Kong is an exaggeration ad absurdum, too vast to be plausible. This makes his actions wholly enjoyable. King Kong, "conceived" by Merian Coldwell Cooper, was not made entirely by enlarging miniatures. Kong is actually 50 ft. tall, 36 ft. around the chest. His face is 6½ ft. wide with 10-in. teeth and ears 1 ft. long. He has a rubber nose, glass eyes as big as tennis balls. His furry outside is made of 30 bearskins. During...