Paramount was initially opposed to his decision to name the movie The Godfather Part II.

Upon the film's completion, Lubitsch approached Paramount general manager B. P. Schulberg and threatened to leave the studio if Cukor's name wasn't removed from the credits.

The duo began their Paramount film careers in 1949 as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name.

Paramount Pictures was not connected to Paramount Records until it purchased the rights to use the name ( but not its catalog ) in the late 1960s.

The Paramount name was used for soundtrack albums and some pop re-issues from the Dot Records catalog which Paramount had acquired in 1958.

In 2009, CBS stopped using the Paramount name in its series and changed the name of the production arm to CBS Television Studios, eliminating the Paramount name from television, to distance itself from the latter.

Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.

In the sound era, the logo was accompanied by a fanfare called Paramount on Parade after the film of the same name, released in 1930.

Polanski returned to the United States, and was contracted by the head of Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans, to direct and write the screenplay for Rosemary's Baby, which was based on Ira Levin's novel of the same name.

Cary Grant ( born Archibald Leach ) had his name selected for him by Paramount Pictures.

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

In 1968, the parent company changed its name from American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., formally dropping the Paramount name from the company and all subsidiaries which bore that name.

The theater received its next name, The Theater at Madison Square Garden, in the mid-90s, after Viacom bought Paramount and sold the MSG properties.

In 1997, three years after the Paramount / Viacom merger, that company sold its stake in the networks to Universal ( which, along with parent MCA, changed ownership twice earlier in the 1990s: to Matsushita in 1991, and then Seagrams in 1995, the latter company making Universal Studios the corporate name of its media division in 1997 ).

The name was taken from Paramount Boulevard, the main north-to-south surface street extending through the city.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

One of the most unusual buses ever built was a prop for Paramount Productions in 1935 for a movie set.

It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.

In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.

Deng Xiaoping was the Paramount Leader of China from 1978 to 1992, although he never became the head of the party or state, and his influence within the Party led the country to significant economic reforms.

It was produced by Charles / Burrows / Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

Digital Cinema Initiatives ( DCI ) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ( Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Bros. Studios ) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.

A single screening of the film was presented at the Hollywood Paramount.

First National was the brainchild of Thomas L. Tally, who was reacting to the overwhelming influence of Paramount Pictures, which dominated the market.

Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures was threatened by First National's financial power and its control over the lucrative first run theaters and decided to enter the cinema business as well.

There was disagreement between Paramount and Coppola on the issue of casting ; Coppola stuck to his plan of casting Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone, though Paramount wanted either Ernest Borgnine or Danny Thomas.

At one point, Coppola was told by the then-president of Paramount that " Marlon Brando will never appear in this motion picture ".

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.

The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee ( as Grub Street Productions ) in association with Grammnet ( 2004 ) and Paramount Network Television.

It was released by the studio where the Marx Brothers began their film career, Paramount Pictures.

In 1930, he co-directed three films at Paramount, and his weekly salary was increased to $ 1500.

Following basic training at Fort Monmouth, he was assigned to the old Paramount studios in Astoria, Queens ( where he had directed three films in the early 1930s ), although he was permitted to lodge at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan.

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

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.

Paramount finally dropped plans for a remake in March 2011.

" The hyphen was dropped due to legal issues associated with the new association with Paramount beginning in mid 1927 following the bankruptcy of The Red Seal Pictures Corporation.

In 2004, Paramount dropped its shares in the park, and the name was reverted without the Paramount suffix.

Playing at the Paramount Theater in New York for $ 10, 000 a week in 1942, Thornhill dropped everything to enlist in the US Navy to support the war effort.

Paramount dropped her contract with the advent of talking pictures.

Paramount dropped Hart, who then made one last bid for his kind of western.

In 2008, Paramount Pictures announced that they had a new feature film adaptation of Dune in development with Peter Berg set to direct ; Berg dropped out of the project in October 2009, and director Pierre Morel was signed in January 2010.

Paramount finally dropped the project in March 2011.

" Wolf wrote 45 pages within only a few days, and dropped the script off at Paramount 15 minutes before his deadline.

DeMille asked Paramount Pictures to put Tierney under contract, but the idea was dropped when he was arrested for fighting in a bar.

After the Paramount Parks were sold to Cedar Fair and all licensing rights were dropped, the rides within the park continued to operate with the Paramount movie names for the 2007 season.

By the time its days as an independent were coming to an end, WUAB was the Cleveland home of the various Star Trek series ( Deep Space Nine was in production then ) from Paramount Television, as well as an affiliate of the Action Pack ( which aired on WUAB from 1994 until 1997 ) and Prime Time Entertainment Networks ( which ended at the time WUAB dropped the WB ).

After being dropped from Fox, Eythe was able to do some work on television, and an occasional B-movie for Paramount or Columbia Pictures, but he primarily focused on theatre work.

Paramount Pictures, which was planning a film based on the book, dropped the idea in fear that fanatics would emulate the scenario in real life.

Until October 2009, KBVO-CA's programming was also seen on a group of translators formerly used to carry the Hill Country Paramount Network ; this ended after the KNVA simulcast was dropped in favor of KBVO's programming ( the translators continue to simulcast KNVA ).

" The movie's original distributor, Paramount, dropped it after pressure from black groups.

Judson dropped the name Melford and later worked for thirty years as an electrician for Paramount Studios using his real name of LeRoy, dying childless in Santa Clara, California in 1978.