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Krim cited a history of friction between the freewheeling movie firm and the textbook-style conglomerate. "This is one business that is really different," he said. Krim and Benjamin, both New York lawyers, acquired the business in 1951 from Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford, who helped start the firm as a place that would allow independent film makers to work without the restrictions imposed by major studios. Run from a dingy Manhattan headquarters, U.A. has no production facilities, but operates in effect as a banker and distributor for movie people seeking an honest count at the box office and exceptional...
...success. Zukor maneuvered his Famous Players Film Co. through a series of deals to form Paramount, the first film company with its own theater chain, and began turning out scores of movies, beginning with The Count of Monte Cristo in 1913, counting on high-paid stars, such as Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino, to draw the crowds. Unlike other early movie magnates, Zukor avoided both Hollywood and histrionics, preferring to manage his burgeoning entertainment empire from New York, where he ran Paramount until he retired as chairman...
...franchise a number of their shops, but keep a firm hand on their agents. Buccellati and Bulgari are brother acts: one brother minds the store in New York while the others produce the jewels back home. Salvatore Ferragamo, who got his start making shoes for Silent Screen Stars Mary Pickford and Pola Negri, left his business to his widow, six children and a nephew. Mario of Florence lives in Manhattan and commutes to his factory in Florence. "I think I'm Alitalia's best customer," says Giuliana di Camerino, who lives in Venice and commutes to New York...
Died. Johnny Mack Brown, 70, the University of Alabama's 1926 Rose Bowl hero, who became a leading man in films with Marion Davies (The Fair Coed) and Mary Pickford (Coquette), then went on to star in Hollywood westerns of the '30s and '40s; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...reelers and 52 feature films, she played the kind of waifs and orphans and ingenues who broke America's heart. And after Mary Pickford married Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in 1920 at the peak of her career, they reigned at "Pickfair" for ten idyllic years, entertaining foreign royals. But behind the simper, Mary, who went into show business at the age of four, possessed the brain of a Harvard Business School graduate. In Sweetheart, the first full-length biography of Pickford, published this week, Author Robert Windeler tots up Mary's present fortune to more than $50 million...