Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myron Selznick's brother, Producer David Selznick, last fortnight made news by hiring his onetime boss at Paramount, Benjamin P. Schulberg, as an assistant at Selznick International. Both Selznicks are sons of the late, famed Lewis J. Selznick ("Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours"), kingpin of the industry during and just after the War, whose major worries, before he failed in 1923, were: 1) how to get stars like Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas and Owen Moore to act for as little as possible; and 2) how to teach the business to his sons, who used to do odd jobs...
...Texans (Paramount). Equipped with more manners and poise than most cinemactors, Randolph Scott is one of the few who have married heiresses. His wife, from whom he is separated, was Marian du Pont. When not in Hollywood he likes to attend swank horse shows and hunt races...
...Distillers 2,792,938 2,766,353 Petroleum Union Oil Co. of California. 5,200,000 4,950,000 Tide Water Associated. . . 7,696,701 5,992,705 Shell Union 8,480,927 5,830,437 Aircraft Douglas 525,822 1.093,149 Martin 526,307 1,372,600 Cinema Paramount 4,290,000 1,225,811 Twentieth Century-Fox (26 weeks) 3,755,483 3,419,658 d=deficit The gloominess of some of these earnings was somewhat lessened when they were broken down. General Motors, for example, made $24,786,002 in the second quarter of 1938 compared...
When Mr. Zukor made his prediction, cinema production, distribution and exhibition were largely separate. But a struggle for control of the industry was developing between producers and exhibitors. Such producers as Paramount got into exhibition; such exhibitors as Loew's got into production. With ever-increasing clamor during recent years, the chief trade organization of independent exhibitors, Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, has claimed that the result has been monopolization of the cinema industry to such an extent that independents could barely exist (TIME, June 7, 1937). The Department of Justice investigated, agreed. Hence last week...
...eight: Paramount Pictures, Inc.; Loew's, Inc.; Irving Trust Co. as trustee in bankruptcy for Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; Columbia Pictures Corp.; Universal Corp.; United Artists Corp...