Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

In 1933, Mae West would also add greatly to Paramount's success with her movies She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.

In later years, Paramount's TV division would develop a strong relationship with ABC, providing many hit series to the network.

Despite some rough times, Evans held the job for eight years, restoring Paramount's reputation for commercial success with The Odd Couple, Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, and Rosemary's Baby.

During their administration over Paramount, the studio had an extremely successful period of films with two of Paramount's ten highest grossing films being produced during this period.

Under the deal, Paramount is required to distribute the DreamWorks animated films for a small fee intended only to cover Paramount's out of pocket costs with no profit to the studio, including the Shrek franchise ( and ending for the 2004 installment, Shrek 2 ).

Balaban, consistent with his other decisions to sell off rights and dismantle Paramount's library, was of the opinion that there was no future economic value to " old " movies.

In The Ten Commandments, Paramount's John P. Fulton, A. S. C., multiplied the crowds of extras in the Exodus scenes with careful compositing, depicted the massive constructions of Rameses with models, and split the Red Sea in a still-impressive combination of travelling mattes and water tanks.

In 1932, he starred with Jeanette MacDonald in Paramount's film musical, One Hour With You which became a success and one of the films instrumental in making musicals popular again.

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

After being acquired by Viacom in 1994, Paramount Pictures began a 10-year output deal with Showtime ( then also owned by Viacom ), effective after 1997, after Paramount's contract with HBO expired.

Paramount's contract with the channel expired January 2008.

Whether with music, as in MGM's opulent The Merry Widow ( 1934 ) and Paramount's One Hour with You ( 1932 ), or without, as in Design for Living ( 1933 ), Lubitsch continued to specialize in comedy.

They can be seen singing " You Don't Have to Know the Language " with Bing Crosby in Paramount's Road to Rio with Bob Hope, that year's highest-grossing movie.

Two of the earliest films to use the form were Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), released by MGM with an all-star cast ; and Paramount's If I Had a Million ( also 1932 ), featuring segments helmed by a number of directors.

While the production of the cartoons had become more refined with more structured stories, the level of the content was more juvenile, largely influenced by Paramount's front office, which was changing the tone of their films to reflect a more family-oriented audience by producing films more of the nature of MGM.

While Fleischer had issues over the breach of contract, he had avoided suing to protect his son-in-law, Seymour Kneitel, who still had a position with Paramount's Famous Studios.

Robin Curtis had arrived in Los Angeles in 1982 ; she made friends with the head of Paramount's casting department, who recommended her for the role.

**** Most of Paramount's animated productions and live-action short subjects released prior to October 1, 1950 ( except for the Popeye and Superman cartoons, owned by Time Warner ; while the Jerry Fairbanks library is now owned by Shields Pictures )

By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, he gained the services of Barney Balaban ( who would eventually become Paramount's president in 1936 ), his brother A. J. Balaban ( who would eventually supervise all stage production nationwide and produce talkie shorts ), and their partner Sam Katz ( who would run the Paramount-Publix theatre chain from New York City ).

Her break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office and was cast as the female lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin ' South.

At the time, Paramount's holdings included Paramount Pictures, Madison Square Garden, the New York Rangers, the New York Knicks, and the Simon & Schuster publishing house.

Francis made this film and the Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts ( 1929 ) at Paramount's Astoria Studios in New York.

Due to the great success of Paramount's The 4400 New York Post author Adam Buckman wrote on August 28, 2005 " I'd like to thank two singers-one named Sia and the other named Amanda Abizaid-for making TV all the more memorable this summer ".

Mancuso was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of former Paramount Pictures president Frank Mancuso, Sr. Mancuso produced all of the sequels to Friday the 13th under Paramount's distribution ( i. e., parts 2-8 ), co-created the unrelated Friday the 13th: The Series.

The announcement was made by Brad Grey, chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, who noted that enhancing Paramount's pipeline of pictures is a " key strategic objective in restoring Paramount's stature as a leader in filmed entertainment.

* The U. S. rights to The African Queen are now owned by Paramount Pictures ( after years of changing hands as the result of a series of management changes involving Paramount's parent company Viacom ).

Without the Paramount Pictures film licenses, many of the rides at the Paramount Parks were renamed to more generic names so as not to infringe on Paramount's copyrights.

On September 8, 2008, Entertainment Tonight began to air in high definition with the move of the program from their longtime home at Stage 28 on the Paramount Pictures studio lot to Stage 4 at CBS Studio Center, one of the final steps involving the incorporation of Paramount's former syndication arm, Paramount Domestic Television, into CBS ' distribution arms and the adoption of the CBS Television Distribution name, which all took place following the breakup of the original Viacom in 2005.

In the United States, television and internet rights to the theatrical library are held by Paramount Pictures, with Trifecta Entertainment & Media ( inherited from CBS Television Distribution and predecessor company Worldvision Enterprises, once a Spelling Entertainment company ) handling TV syndication on Paramount's behalf.

His writing credits include Universal Pictures Meet the Fockers and Paramount's The Perfect Score.

Paramount Pictures, which owned a stake in DuMont, vetoed a merger with ABC who had merged with United Paramount Theaters, Paramount's former theater division, a year before.

In 1992, the company was sold to Paramount Communications ( formerly Gulf + Western, and later acquired by Viacom ), then the parent of Paramount Pictures, which changed the name of the parks by adding " Paramount's " in front of their names.

The pre-1948 B-pictures from Pine-Thomas Productions were also sold off to TV syndicators before the MCA deal, as was Paramount's Bulldog Drummond series, the latter of which is now owned by Janus Films.

With Paramount's option expired, Rice moved the film rights to Lorimar Productions, which was taken over by Warner Bros. in 1988.

* 2006: On January 17, CBS Corporation CEO Les Moonves announced that Paramount Television would be renamed CBS Paramount Television as of that day, after merging with CBS Productions, with both the CBS ' eyemark ' and Paramount's mountain united in the new logo, and the network division becoming CBS Paramount Network Television.

This was done mainly to address ABC's inability to find a suitable 8 p. m. lead-in program for MNF since the 1992 ending of MacGyver ( not even two other series from Paramount Television – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and The Marshal – which produced MacGyver, saw success, despite the former's ties to Paramount's Indiana Jones film series ), and to allow stations to start their late local newscasts nearer to their regular times.

Mercer continued to voice the one-eyed sailor for the Fleischers, for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoons ( 1942 – 1957 ), for a series of television cartoons for King Features Syndicate, and for a Saturday morning cartoon show ( 1978 ) produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

The ABC / Dot headquarters became the Nashville office of ABC Records, a division of the American Broadcasting Company, which coincidentally had been bought by Paramount's old theater chain in 1953 ( which helped the network catch up to its rivals CBS and NBC ), and had started a good relationship with Paramount's TV division ( wherein Paramount produced a number of hit series on ABC ).

When Cedar Fair acquired the Paramount Parks, they revolutionized their own season pass system using Paramount's as a blueprint, and also absorbed some of Paramount's theme-focused entertainment, combining it with their own well-proven thrills to create some of their most famous attractions: Maverick and Diamondback, among others.

Paramount's attempts at creating replacement characters, among them Jeepers and Creepers and The Cat, proved unsuccessful.