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United Artists was formed in 1919 by David Wark Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford because they were tired of making money for other producers. One by one, United Artists' founders grew tired of making money for themselves. Director Griffith retired from the company in 1933. U. A.'s other original producers have almost ceased producing pictures in the last five years. Since United Artists stopped making their own pictures, other producers have made pictures for the company to release to exhibitors. Of the producers who release through United Artists, two have bought partnerships...
...magazines, has long seemed obvious. This week on U. S. newsstands appeared 52,000 copies of the first substantial effort to supply this demand. It was Cinema Arts, a FORTUNE-sized, 50?, slick-paper magazine, published by Albert Griffith-Grey, younger brother of the oldtime cinema director, David Wark Griffith...
...Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark Griffith (1936) as a belated tribute for outstanding contributions "to the advancement of the motion picture." Last week the Committee decided that in 1935-36 cinema had received a contribution outstanding "for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry- Newsreel. Its creativeness is looked upon...
...speakers' table, looking like a rather grouchy old professor, sat famed oldtime Director David Wark ("The Old Master") Griffith, who climaxed the affairs at 1 a. m. by awarding the three top prizes. Last week was a big one for Direc tor Griffith, now 56, comparatively poor, and apparently through with the cinema. In Manhattan two audiences invited by the Museum of Modern Art to its series of cinema classics agreed that his Intolerance (which, contrary to legend that it cost $2,500,000, was made for $330,000 in 1916) compared favorably in many ways with modern efforts...
Divorced. Linda Avidson Griffith-;, by David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, 56, onetime No. 1 film director (Birth of a Nation, Abraham Lincoln); after a 25-yeaf separation; in LaGrange...