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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Joe Kennedy wrote his epitaph of Paramount, many a Wall Streeter figured he was dead right. Paramount had just stumbled out of bankruptcy without appearing to shed any of the overgrown ineptitude that had put it in there. Adolph Zukor put Paramount together in 1912. Its roots were in the days when nickelodeons were gold mines and Mary Pickford made her first $20,000 a year. An expansionist of such resolution that the trade began calling him a monopolist, Zukor bought stars and studios until Paramount and Hollywood were synonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount Is Paramount Again | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

What Nye thought of the movies was no secret. He had publicly accused the companies of trying to make the U.S. "punch-drunk with propaganda to push her into war." He had accused Jewish and foreign-born producers-Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Sam Goldwyn, Murray Silverstone and others-emotionally agitated by Hitler, of being responsible. Said he: primarily responsible for movie war propaganda were "four names, each that of one of the Jewish faith, each one foreign-born." Yet he denied that he was antiSemitic, said "I remain, as yet at least, bitterly opposed to the injection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hollywood in Washington | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...Actors' Academy (Hungarian national theatrical school), served with the Hungarian forces during World War I, made his professional stage debut in Budapest in 1916 as Liliom. Later he was a guest artist under Max Reinhardt in Berlin and Vienna, acted in German UFA films. Paramount's Adolf Zukor saw him on the Budapest stage, got Lukas to move to Hollywood. Since then he has appeared in The Night Watch, Strictly Dishonorable, Little Women, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Lady Vanishes. He first played on Broadway in 1937 in A Doll's House. He is married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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