The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

* 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.

* 1867 – Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive ( d. 1939 )

In 1931, Universal chief Carl Laemmle, Jr. offered Whale his choice of any property the studio owned.

* September 24 – Carl Laemmle, German film producer ( b. 1867 )

* June 8 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.

* September 24 – Carl Laemmle, Jr., American film studio executive ( b. 1908 )

For example, Lon Chaney Sr .’ s son Creighton spent a number of years appearing in minor roles before renaming himself Lon Chaney Jr. Actress Rebecca Isabelle Laemmle rechristened herself Carla Laemmle in reference to her uncle, Universal Studios head Carl Laemmle.

His mother, Melanie ( died February 13, 1955, Los Angeles, California, aged 77 ), was German, and a cousin of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Pictures.

Her nervousness was compounded when she overheard the Chief of Production, Carl Laemmle, Jr., comment to another executive that she had " about as much sex appeal as Slim Summerville ", one of the film's co-stars.

While things were going in Mintz's favor, animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising asked Universal head Carl Laemmle to remove Mintz, suggesting they would be the ones to continue the Oswald series.

Dupont's success was noticed by Carl Laemmle at Universal, who offered Dupont a lucrative contract.

Coal Barons and the President of Universal Films ( Carl Laemmle ) sponsored the famous mile and a quarter Uniontown Speedway board track from 1916 to 1922.

He found work as an office secretary at Universal Pictures ' New York office, and eventually worked his way up to be personal secretary to the studio's founder and president, Carl Laemmle, where he was paid $ 25 per week.

During his few years with Universal while living in New York, Thalberg had become romantically involved with Carl Laemmle ’ s daughter, Rosabelle.

* Carl Laemmle, later of Universal, experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film.

The studio was formed originally as Universal Studio Cartoons on the initiative of Universal movie mogul Carl Laemmle, who was tired of the continuous company politics he was dealing with concerning contracting cartoons to outside animation studios.

Before it was a cemetery, Forest Lawn was a filming location used by directors such as Carl Laemmle and Cecil B. DeMille.

# The Life & Adventures of Carl Laemmle ; by John Drinkwater ( Carl Laemmle views Nestor ranch and names the area Universal City ))

* 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day.

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

With his erudition, he impressed the governor-general baron Godert van der Capellen and the head of the botanical garden Buitenzorg ( Bogor ), Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt.

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

In 1833, Carl Friedrich Gauss, head of the Geomagnetic Observatory in Göttingen, published a paper on measurement of the Earth's magnetic field.

Harris ' project caught the attention of a rival entrepreneur, Carl Barrett, the Chicago head of the Illinois Auto Club.

Famous residents both past and present have included Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, his son Enrique Iglesias, pro golfer Raymond Floyd, coaches Rick Pitino and Don Shula, US Senator George Smathers, Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi of Saudi Arabia, television host Don Francisco, billionaire investor Carl Icahn, co-founder of Calvin Klein Barry Schwartz, billionaire developer Donny Soffer, banker and developer Jamie Gilinski, steel executive Leroy Schecter, wireless executive Rajendra Singh, radio magnate Raul Alarcon, real estate billionaire Peter Breton, coal and oil executive Christopher F. Viegas, Perry Ellis head George Feldenkreis, former Philadelphia Eagles owner and billionaire art collector Norman Braman, heiress and philanthropist Suzie Linden, and former cable company CEO Ken Bagwell.

ABC News Reporter Christen Craig as well as sports figures Jerry Sloan ( former basketball player and head coach for the Chicago Bulls and former head coach of the Utah Jazz ) and Carl Mauck ( former center for the Houston Oilers and NFL coach ) were also born there.

Carl Galioto, the head of the company's technical division, stated that it opened the office because it had difficulty hiring New York City-area recruits.

Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Count Carl Erik Mannerheim ( 1759 – 1837 ), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service during the early years of the autonomous Russian Grand Principality of Finland, including membership in the Senate, and served as the first Prime Minister of Finland ( formally the Vice Chairman of the Economic Department of the Senate-the Senate consisted of Economic Department, later the cabinet, and the Justice Dpt, later the Supreme Court, and the formal chairman of both was the Governor General as the acting head of state ).

In 1999, Whitman fired Colonel Carl A. Williams, head of the New Jersey State Police, after he was quoted noting that cocaine and marijuana traffickers were often members of minority groups, while the methaphetamine trade was controlled by primarily white biker gangs.

Wilhelm von Gloeden was the son of head forester ( forstmeister ) Carl Hermann von Gloeden

In 1920, Speaker guided the Indians to their first ever World Series Championship despite the death of Ray Chapman on August 17, after being hit in the head by a pitch from Carl Mays.

Meanwhile, Bushwood's head greenskeeper ( Thomas A. Carlin ) is pressured by Smails to deal with a potentially disastrous gopher infestation, and entrusts his dubiously qualified assistant Carl Spackler ( Bill Murray ) with the task.

Carl W. Mitman was the first head of the museum, under the title of Assistant to the Secretary for the National Air Museum, heading the museum from 1946 until his retirement from the Smithsonian in 1952.

The incident forever cemented Carl Mays as a head hunter.

Laval with the head of German police units in France, Carl Oberg

According to Carl Elsener, head of Victorinox in 2009, U. S. soldiers bought Swiss Army knives in huge numbers at PX stores on military bases following the conclusion of the Second World War.

Other possible names mentioned to head the new government were Alfred Hugenberg and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, both of whom were vetoed by Hindenburg.

For Part 2, Steve Miner asked Carl Fullerton, the make-up effects supervisor, to stick to Savini's original design, but Fullerton only had one day to design and sculpt a new head.

* 16 August — Ray Chapman of Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball from Carl Mays of New York Yankees.

The film was novelized in 1977, in paperback under the pseudonym of " Carl Dreadstone ", as part of a short-lived series of books based on the classic Universal horror films.

The philosophy professor Carl Günther Ludovici, a classmate of Longolius, took over as editor of the Universal Lexicon from Volume 19.

Zedler was increasingly marginalized after the financial takeover of his publishing house by Wolf, and after Carl Günther Ludovici took over the direction of the 19th and subsequent volumes of the Universal Lexicon.

Musicians Bob Mould ' 82 and Will Sheff ' 98, Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut president and 2010 candidate for Connecticut governor Juan A. Figueroa ' 77, talent agent Ari Emanuel ' 83 ( upon whom Ari Gold from " Entourage " is based ), and actors Peter Berg ' 84 and Carl Lumbly ' 73.

* Carl Laemmle, film executive, founder of Universal Pictures ; he created the " Star " system

The company, founded by Carl Laemmle, the owner of a film exchange ( who later absorbed IMP into Universal Pictures, which he also founded and was president of ), was looking for experienced filmmakers and actors.

Universal president Carl Laemmle became dissatisfied with the Mintz-Winkler product and fired them, deciding instead to produce the Oswalds directly on the Universal lot.

On the northwest corner, the Laemmle Building was built in the International Style in 1932 by architect Richard Neutra for Carl Laemmle, of Universal Studios fame.