Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mildly successful pictures, of which the most notable was The Private Life of Helen of Troy, he joined Fox. By 1930 he had lost his job, most of his money and his wife, who divorced him. Director Korda whisked back to Berlin, then Paris; found a job at Paramount's Joinville studio. Two years later, he summoned his old friend Author Lajos Biro to help him promote a few thousand francs. With a smart young film salesman named Stephen Pallos and Brother Vincent Korda they formed the enterprise that presently developed into London Film Productions...
...London, where the new company set about making pictures for Paramount and Gaumont-British release, Alexander Korda had a hard time until someone sent him a fat, pasty-faced young actor named Charles Laughton. To the derision of the whole British film industry, Producer Korda promptly cast Laughton as Henry VIII. He then persuaded United Artists to release the finished picture and last of all got together enough private capital to make it. The Private Life of Henry VIII made Laughton a superstar, launched the careers of Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie and Merle Oberon, caused Korda...
...Crusades (Paramount). Cinemaddicts who have had 20 years in which to grow accustomed to the methods of Cecil Blount DeMille by now have some idea what to expect in a DeMille version of the Holy Wars. The Crusades should fulfill all expectations. As a picture it is historically worthless, didactically treacherous, artistically absurd. None of these defects impairs its entertainment value. It is a $1,000,000 sideshow which has at least three features which distinguish it from the long line of previous DeMille extravaganzas. It is the noisiest; it is the biggest; it contains no baths...
...Press," correctly styling itself "a new departure and the first of its kind in the field," plugged Jack Price's old campaign to give reporters cameras. "The snobbishness of the scribe towards the photographer," declared Price, "is fast disappearing. A well-covered story is still the paramount issue. . . . Photography is no longer the specialized profession. . . . Any reporter can make a really good picture within a short time if he will give a little care and attention to a camera. . . . Some of the great est of all news photographs have been made by amateurs...
...crowded into Federal Courts all over the land to start reviving old bankrupt companies or to stave off the crash of concerns close to trouble. In Manhattan the first to apply for reorganization under Section 77b was Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Last week RKO was still in the courts but Paramount, whose reorganization could never have been completed without Section 77b. was out of the woods. First major company to complete organization under the new law was Glenn L. Martin Co. (bombers) whose plans for recapitalization were approved and adopted in Baltimore Federal Court in one month. Last week Editor...