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Love and Theft is the thirty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in September 2001 by Columbia Records.
The final studio album for Columbia by the Desmond / Wright / Morello quartet was Anything Goes ( 1966 ) featuring Cole Porter songs.
Capra returned to Harry Cohn's studio, now renamed Columbia Pictures, which had then been producing short films and two-reel comedies used as " fillers ", which played between main features.
His studio property was purchased by Mascot Pictures ( later part of Republic Pictures ), and many of his former staffers found work at Columbia Pictures.
Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".
He failed a screen test at Columbia Pictures and was told by studio boss Harry Cohn that " for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes.
Although both series were successful, the Disney studio thought it was not receiving its rightful share of profits from Pat Powers, and in 1930, Disney signed a new distribution deal with Columbia Pictures.
The partnership ended in 1990 when Columbia moved into the former MGM studio lot in Culver City.
* May 27 – The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, and most influential, released by Columbia Records.
Columbia was the last studio still producing shorts, and the market for such films had all but dried up.
Although the Stooges were no longer working for Columbia, the studio had enough completed films on the shelf to keep releasing new comedies for another 18 months, and not in the order they were produced.
According to Hollywood legend, Gable was lent to Columbia Pictures, then considered a minor studio, as some kind of " punishment " for refusing a role at his own studio.
Columbia Pictures purchased the screen rights in September 1932, and the studio scheduled the production to begin the following May, although director Frank Capra had misgivings about the project.
Hitchcock explained the term " MacGuffin " in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: " have a name in the studio, and we call it the ' MacGuffin '.
The serious financial crisis it created for Columbia Pictures damaged the partnership between Capra and studio head Harry Cohn, as well as the friendship between Capra and screenwriter Riskin, whose previous collaborations had included Lady for a Day, It Happened One Night, and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
Columbia studio head Harry Cohn thought it was too cheeky and ordered it removed, but Hawks insisted that it stay.
* Frank Sinatra recorded three studio versions of the song ; the first as a single for Columbia in the 1940s, the second, in 1959 for the album No One Cares, and lastly, in 1984 for the album L. A. Is My Lady.
But by the Columbia years his compositional output was limited, and only his final Columbia studio record Underground featured a substantial number of new tunes, including his only waltz time piece, " Ugly Beauty ".
The Walton's house facade was built on the Here Come the Brides set on the Columbia Ranch studio, now one of the Warner Brothers studios.
In addition to the Millicent Martin studio recording of " In the Summer of His Years " issued in the US by ABC-Paramount, other versions were recorded and released by Connie Francis ( MGM ), Mahalia Jackson ( Columbia ), Kate Smith ( RCA Victor ), Sarah Vaughan ( Vernon ) and The Chad Mitchell Trio ( Mercury ); the Francis recording became a Top 40 hit on the Cash Box pop singles chart in January 1964.
Many of the sessions were held in Liederkranz Hall, on East 58th Street in New York City, a building formerly belonging to a German cultural and musical society, and used as a recording studio by Columbia Records.
He also recorded extensively, leading studio bands frequently for OKeh, Columbia and occasionally other record labels.
Soon, director Frank Capra's association with Columbia would help vault the studio toward Hollywood's major leagues.

Columbia and executive
Another time, a Du Pont executive made a visit to see him at Columbia.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to study jazz academically, and having given recitals in the classical and jazz piano programs at Loyola University, Connick moved to the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City to study at Hunter College and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where a Columbia Records executive Sr. V. P.
In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records, whose executive Clive Davis was impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album.
Christensen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada the son of Alie Nelson, a speechwriter for the heads of large companies, and David Christensen, a computer programmer and communications executive.
From 1883 to 1888 he was chief librarian at Columbia University, from 1888 to 1906 director of the New York State Library, and from 1888 to 1900 secretary and executive officer of the University of the State of New York.
With an improved resume, she returned to Hollywood in late 1933, and turned down several contract offers until she was asked to meet with an executive from Columbia Pictures.
In 1983, he gained a doctorate of juridical science ( JSD ) at Columbia University, and his thesis on the executive power of the Commonwealth of Australia became the core of Parliament, the Executive and the Governor-General, which was published by Melbourne University Press in 1983, and which is still regarded as the leading text on the subject.
Although by this time he was an established composer, with a significant body of work, as well as a member or ASCAP, he was nonetheless unable to secure the financial support that he sought from either the Rosenwald Foundation, or a Guggenheim Fellowship, both of which he received endorsement for from the Columbia Records executive, and long time admirer, John Hammond.
Blair was born in Columbia, Maryland, the son of a federal executive and a schoolteacher.
He was the father of five children and two step-children, including Ed Eckstine, who was a president of Mercury Records, Guy Eckstine, who was a Columbia and Verve Records A & R executive and record producer, and singer Gina Eckstine.
Finding that he no longer desired the Georgia plantation life of his youth, he taught mathematics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, and then served in executive positions with the Charlotte, Columbia, and Augusta Railroad ( executive superintendent ), the Savannah and Memphis Railroad ( president ), and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( president ).
A Mandalay Television Pictures production, executive produced by Elizabeth Stephen with Rand Miller and Susan Bonds of Cyan, in association with Columbia Tri Star Domestic Television. distributed through USA Cable Entertainment.
The archive was given by Columbia in the 1980s to FDU through the work of Jack Kells, FDU alum and former Columbia executive.
" Just tell the asshole to keep paying the bills ", he is reported to have told another Columbia executive.
After leaving government service, Sick served as Deputy Director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987, and is the executive director of the Gulf / 2000 Project at Columbia University ( 1993 – present ), which has published five books and numbers many of the leading scholars on the Persian Gulf among its global membership.
Previously, Ginnie Cooper, now of the District of Columbia Public Library, had been the executive director of the BPL since January 2003.
In early April 2012, Good became engaged to boyfriend DeVon Franklin, an executive for Columbia Pictures and a Seventh-Day Adventist preacher.
In 2005, Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette ( GICW ), Goodwill's Portland, Oregon branch, came under scrutiny due to executive compensation that the Oregon attorney general's office concluded was " unreasonable.
William S. Paley ( September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990 ) was the chief executive who built Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ) from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.
Produced by Embassy Television ( later Embassy Communications and ELP Communications ), in association with Hunter-Cohan Productions, and Columbia Pictures Television, the series starred Tony Danza as a retired major league baseball player who relocates to Fairfield, Connecticut to work as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive, played by Judith Light.

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