Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

He won, was awarded damages, and then accepted a settlement from Paramount.

Buchwald won the lawsuit and was awarded damages, and then accepted a settlement from Paramount before any appeal took place.

The following year in 1927, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released under Paramount, a film noted for its high budget and production values.

In December 1928, Paramount Pictures signed him to a contract that reimbursed him for his airfare and initially paid him $ 600 per week with no screen credit during a six-month apprenticeship.

Cinderfella was postponed for a Christmas 1960 release, and Paramount, needing a quickie feature film for its summer 1960 schedule, held Lewis to his contract to produce one.

Whale traveled to Hollywood in 1929 and signed a contract with Paramount Pictures.

" Pickford first demanded ( and received ) these powers in 1916, when she was under contract to Adolph Zukor's Famous Players In Famous Plays ( later Paramount ).

One Fleischer series, Screen Songs, featured live-action music stars under contract to Paramount hosting sing-alongs of popular songs.

With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents.

In July 2011, in the wake of critical and box office success of the animated feature, Rango, and the departure of DreamWorks Animation upon completion of their distribution contract in 2012, Paramount announced the formation of a new division, devoted to the creation of animated productions.

On a contract with Paramount to produce another film on the order of Nanook, Flaherty went to Samoa to film Moana ( 1926 ).

Paramount obtained an exclusive contract with Foundation Imaging, the studio responsible for special effects during Babylon 5's first three seasons.

On October 23, 1930, by " mutual consent ," Paramount and Eisenstein declared their contract null and void, and the Eisenstein party were treated to return tickets to Moscow at Paramount's expense.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

In 1930, she won a contract with Paramount Pictures after having been dropped by both 20th Century and Pathé Exchange.

Loren became an international film star following her five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in 1958.

Shooting ended eight weeks later, at which time Jackie Cooper's contract with Paramount Pictures was transferred to MGM.

He signed a contract with Paramount Pictures and played his first American role in Innocents of Paris.

While under contract with Paramount, Chevalier's name was so recognized that his passport featured in the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business ( 1931 ).

Colbert continued her stage career, but ultimately signed a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1928.

In 1933, Colbert renegotiated her contract with Paramount to allow her to appear in films for other studios.

In 1936, Colbert signed a new contract with Paramount Pictures, which required her to make seven films over a two-year period, and this contract made her Hollywood's highest paid actress.

In 1930, she was signed by Paramount Pictures to a seven-year contract.

Rogers would soon get herself out of the Paramount contract — under which she had made five feature films at Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens — and move with her mother to Hollywood.

Bitter contract disputes, including a threatened walk-out by the Marxes, crippled relationships between them and Paramount just as Duck Soup went into production.

In September 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television ( now known as CBS Television Distribution, the current rights holders for the Star Trek television franchises ) began syndication of an enhanced version of Star Trek: The Original Series in high definition with new CGI visual effects.

Paramount dropped the format after only seven years, although for another forty years the format was used by some European and Japanese producers for feature films, and by American film studios for high resolution special effects sequences.

In late 1978, Trumbull's Future General Corporation, a research / special effects house that was funded by Gulf + Western and Paramount Pictures, was offered the job to produce the special effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

In August 1978, with rumors of an impending meltdown at Abel swirling, Trumbull approached Paramount offering to step in and do the effects with partner Richard Yuricich.

Paramount approached Trumbull to take over effects production, which Trumbull did after securing an agreement to be released from his contract at Paramount upon completion of the film.

" Trumbull reassembled his Future General team, rebuilt his facility which Paramount had nearly gutted, and with a mere five months to create the hundreds of effects shots needed, worked virtually around the clock for months.

Both Warner and Paramount later patented their own " special effects " systems to create Sensurround-type effects.

It featured numerous special effects in relation to the theme of the 2001 Paramount film, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Menzies joined Famous Players-Lasky ( later to evolve into Paramount Pictures ) working in special effects and design.

The Paramount Pictures mountain hails from this era, and originally featured no special effects.

The Protectorate Ordinances ( passed in the Colony in 1896 and 1897 ) abolished the title of King and replaced it with " Paramount Chief "; chiefs and kings had formerly been selected by the leading members of their own communities, now all chiefs, even paramount ones, could be deposed or installed at the will of the Governor ; most of the judicial powers of the chiefs were removed and given to courts presided over by British " District Commissioners "; the Governor decreed that a house tax of 5s to 10s was to be levied annually on every dwelling in the Protectorate.

# " Sold to Paramount as a kit for them to assemble as their stunt car, they did such a poor job that it was basically unusable, aside from going backwards out the window of Cameron's house.

Come Back, Little Sheba ( 1952 ) is a drama film produced by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house.

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.

He also rejected a call from Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, a Cabinet Minister and the Paramount Chief of the Tovata Confederacy, for the Great Council of Chiefs to replace the Senate as the upper house of the legislature, saying that would mix the chiefly system with the modern governmental apparatus, which he believed should remain institutionally separate.

In 2011, with the company's contract with that production house set to expire in 2012 while the film Rango produced by Industrial Light and Magic, proving a major success itself, Paramount announced their intention to re-establish a in-house animation department to compete in the feature animation field on their own.

He recorded for Okeh, Columbia, Paramount, Camden and Vocalion and several others, often recording under the names Fred Richards, the Astorites, the Hotel Astor Band ( Rich and his band served as their house band for a time in the 1920s ) and many others.