Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding the crest of a wave of photographic fervor that carried with it the formation of the Harvard Film Society to present epoch-making pictures, Widener Memorial Library yesterday received from Adolph Zukor, of Paramount fame, a gift of 500 prints from motion pictures he has made...
Much hustle and bustle, due to the presence of reporters and photographers, preceded the formal presentation of the prints by Ray Milland, new Paramount star featured in the current production, "Jungle Princess", to Robert P. Blake '12, Director of the library...
from earlier days. Mr. Odium put in as RKO's president Lawyer Leo Spitz of Chicago, who had been counsel for the old Lubliner & Trinz theatre chain there, later with Balaban & Katz and finally with Paramount. Radio's Sarnoff resigned as chairman of RKO and NBC's Aylesworth was moved upstairs. RKO finished 1935 with $684,733, its first profit since...
...fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished at a series of billboards in which Dietrich and her limbs were formally presented to the U. S. Writers, columnists created for von Sternberg's star the sobriquet he had envisaged, "Legs" Dietrich...
...less remarkable than her relationship to von Sternberg is her family life. She is still married to Rudolf Sieber. He followed her to the U. S., bringing little Maria, after Marlene's establishment at Paramount, helps her in many ways. He soothes her in emergencies, advises her on parts, costumes and household matters. They have occasionally been seen together publicly-Sieber with a feminine companion, Dietrich escorted by her current favorite. She seeks her husband's advice on business but leaves final decisions to her agent, Harry Eddington...