Word: zukor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon he was guest-acting under Max Reinhardt in Vienna and Berlin, appeared in one UFA film. In 1927 Adolph Zukor signed up Pola Negri and Lukas as a potential team. When Lukas arrived in the U.S. with his bride (small, blonde Gisella Benes, to whom he is still married), he was required to post a $500 bond. It was not until five years later that he collected his bond from the Government. Lukas thought the $500 was an admission...
...remodeled chicken houses on the country estate of Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, the North Clarkstown (N.Y.) artists and writers colony has operated the most deluxe civilian-defense "depot" in rural America. There, one recent night, lofty Playwright Maxwell Anderson dutifully watched for enemy planes, patiently waited for alarms, idly surveyed stocks of tools, food and medicine...
...World War II. But that is about as impressive as the hind sight volubility of an upside-down parrot. Considering the particular hour and climate of world history which the Bell dramatizes, Paramount's executives have kept an almost divine political detachment. Says Chairman of the Board Adolph Zukor: "It is a great picture, without political significance. We are not for or against anybody." Says Director Sam Wood: "It is a love story against a brutal background. It would be the same love story if they were on the other side." Says Paramount President Barney Balaban...
When Passion, the story of Madame Du Barry, broke box-office records in Manhattan in 1922, Pola crossed the Atlantic, was met at the boat by Adolph Zukor with a police escort, bands, flowers, photographers. Zukor ordered a dinner for 300, liquor for $5,200. In Hollywood, Pola's fame as a vamp grew with Forbidden Paradise, in which she played with Adolphe Menjou. In six years Pola played in 21 pictures, rose to $300,000 for a single picture...
Stockholders can even be grateful to Adolph Zukor for the inflated prices at which he bought the theaters. Under the tax laws, Paramount can compute its excess-profits credit on the theaters' original cost. To shareholders, this means a tax credit of about $10,000,000 a year...