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.

Laemmle also maintained a large apartment for himself and his two children, Rosabelle Laemmle ( later Bergerman ) and Carl Jr., at 465 West End Avenue, New York City – one block off Riverside Drive and the Hudson River.

" Carl Laemmle, the head of Universal Studios, considered terminating Davis's employment, but cinematographer Karl Freund told him she had " lovely eyes " and would be suitable for The Bad Sister ( 1931 ), in which she subsequently made her film debut.

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.

After producing two films that had already been started when he began work at Universal, he presented Laemmle with his idea for a film based on one of his favorite classic stories, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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

First though, Carl Laemmle organized a publicity stunt by starting a rumor that Lawrence had been killed by a street car in New York City.

Laemmle then had Lawrence make a personal appearance in St. Louis, Missouri in March 1910 with her leading man to show her fans that she was very much alive, making her one of the first performers not already famous in another medium to be identified by name by her studio.

Within a few years, ambitious men like Samuel Goldwyn, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, and the Warner Brothers ( Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack ) had switched to the production side of the business.

Within a few years, ambitious men like Samuel Goldwyn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Louis B. Mayer, and the Warner Brothers ( Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack ) had switched to the production side of the business.

At the launch event, in what is now North Hollywood, a crowd of men and women, dressed in the attire of the era, eagerly awaited the display of the film stages, daredevil stunt pilots and silent-film idols, as well as the movie cameras Laemmle had brought along.

His promoters even sold the grand ( and technically impossible ) lie that Laemmle had persuaded the secretary of the Navy to send a battleship up the Los Angeles River to fire a salvo on opening day.

In the wake of this success, Harry Warner, seeing Edison's monopoly threat grow, decided to break with Laemmle and had the brothers start their own film production company, Warner Features.

During his tenure, Universal had great success with All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), Dracula ( 1931 ), Waterloo Bridge ( 1931 ), Frankenstein ( 1931 ), East of Borneo ( 1931 ), The Mummy ( 1932 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), Imitation of Life ( 1934 ) ( a film which Laemmle Jr. did not personally produce ), and Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).

In 1936, Cowdin led a group of investors who had loaned $ 750, 000 to Carl Laemmle and his son Carl Laemmle, Jr., to finance the film Show Boat.

In 1914, the Universal Film Company, which had acquired Nestor, bought (. 36 sq mi ) of land for a studio and Carl Laemmle named the area Universal City.

However, Tourneur opposed the evolving star system that Carl Laemmle had begun with his advertising campaign for actress Florence Lawrence.

Carl Laemmle and Universal Studios had made a name for themselves by producing such famous horror films of the silent era as Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera.

At a time when actors received no screen credits, Carl Laemmle of the Independent Moving Pictures Company ( IMP ) had begun promoting Lawrence's name and image, making her into America's " First Movie Star.

Ulmer, however, had begun an affair with the wife of independent producer Max Alexander, nephew of Universal studio head Carl Laemmle.

Universal's Carl Laemmle, who had employed Valentino as a supporting actor in two 1919-1920 films, found out that Mozzhukhin was frequently described by the European press as the Russian Valentino.

Oswald made a cameo appearance in the first animated sequence with both sound and color ( two-strip Technicolor ), a 2½ minute animated sequence of the live action movie The King of Jazz ( 1930 ), produced by Laemmle for Universal.

Among Thalberg's duties was transcribing and editing notes Laemmle made during screenings of his films.

In 1912, Lawrence and Solter made a deal with Carl Laemmle, forming their own company.

On July 19, 1941 the Laemmle family made arrangements to have her removed from the Mausoleum where she was laid to rest and moved to the family mausoleum within the Home Of Peace Cemetery in Los Angeles.

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.

With the success of Bride Laemmle was eager to put Whale to work on Dracula's Daughter, the sequel to Universal's first big horror hit.

Whale, wary of doing two horror films in a row and concerned that directing Dracula's Daughter could interfere with his plans for the remake of Show Boat, instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a novel called The Hangover Murders.

This was the last of Whale's films to be produced under the Laemmle family ; the Laemmles lost control of the studio to J. Cheever Cowdin, head of the Standard Capital Corporation, and Charles R. Rogers, who was installed in Junior Laemmle's old job.

* 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 )

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

Laemmle was in the habit of coming to Europe each year and finding promising young men who would work in America.

After nine months, and six unsuccessful films, Laemmle elected not to renew her contract.

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.

He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.

Hague had never accustomed himself to Kodyke.

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

He had made himself the personification of the Devil to the homesteaders.

It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

Waddell had heard that he had been a commando in Rommel's Afrika Corps, and he said to himself: I'd hate to run into him in the desert on a dark night.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Simms admired the raucous tales emanating from the backwoods, but he had himself social affiliations which would not allow him to approve them fully.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.