Towards the end of 1955, Taylor unsuccessfully screen tested to play boxer Rocky Graziano in MGM's Somebody Up There Likes Me after James Dean's death, but his use of a Brooklyn accent and physical prowess in the test impressed the studio enough to gain him a long-term contract.

The studio was impressed, and when Lana Turner eloped with Artie Shaw, Williams screen tested with the leading man Clark Gable, for the film Somewhere I'll Find You.

Fuller was impressed with Peters ' intelligence, spunkiness, and different roles at the studio when he tested her the Friday before shooting started on the Monday.

All British patterns were different, first tested on small wooden models viewed through a periscope in a studio.

Learning will be applied and tested on team-based, client-sponsored projects in studio classes.

Monroe did not want to make this film ; when she turned the part down, the studio tested Sheree North for the role.

Thirty-four actors were tested before the studio decided on Sidney Toler.

As a threat to Monroe, Fox tested North for two of their upcoming productions, The Girl in Pink Tights and There's No Business Like Show Business – two films that had been offered to Monroe – while North was wearing Monroe's own studio wardrobe.

After several small, studio and independent released films that included stand-outs Sisters, Phantom Of The Paradise, and Obsession, a small film based on a novel called Carrie was released directed by Brian De Palma.

Such musical acts as Echo and the Bunnymen, The Smiths, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Swans, The Germs, and Joy Division have been mentioned by Love, including songs by several of them being covered by Hole in live performances and, in some cases, studio recordings.

He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

There have been several conflicts in the past between the director and the studio, sometimes leading to the use of the " Alan Smithee " credit signifying when a director no longer wants to be associated with the final release.

After several years of directing primarily lower-key live-action films, Hideaki Anno formed his own production studio and revisited his still-popular Evangelion franchise with the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, a new series of films providing an alternate retelling of the original story.

His Austin house was a lakeside property, with stalls for several sports cars, plus a video studio in the basement.

The studio employed several assistants to aid Hergé in the production of The Adventures of Tintin.

Kid Rock released several studio albums that mostly went unnoticed before his 1998 record Devil Without a Cause, released with Atlantic Records, sold 11 million albums behind the hits, " Bawitdaba ", " Cowboy ", and " Only God Knows Why ".

Kenny Olson went on to perform with several other bands, and has appeared on other studio recordings such as the song " I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know " from the Les Paul & Friends CD as well as a version of " Little Wing " with Chaka Khan on " The Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix ".

( The 1935 Vitaphone short subject Keystone Hotel is not a Sennett production ; it featured several alumni from the Sennett studio, but Sennett himself had no connection with the film.

After meeting with management several times, in September 2004, Sixx announced that he and Neil had returned to the studio and had begun recording new material.

As well as playing concerts, he recorded several studio albums for Vanguard Records.

With Parker's quintet, Davis went into the studio several times, already showing hints of the style for which he would become known.

While the recording took place in a studio, each record of this series has the structure and feel of a live performance, with several first takes on each album.

The quintet with Hank Mobley was recorded in the studio and on several live engagements at Carnegie Hall and the Black Hawk jazz club in San Francisco.

This was followed by his 4th studio album, also entitled Ninja Tuna, and several further 12 " singles to date.

They formed a small studio in Nice and made several films on location in North Africa, Spain, and Italy for MGM and others.

However with the closure of Locomotive Games the game has been abandoned, although several models and a full-length trailer were released to the public upon the closure of the studio.

The studio has collaborated with several in-house Japanese studios as well as other American-based studios such as STI and Visual Concepts.

It was their most successful album worldwide to date, peaking at number one in several countries, including the United States, and receiving 8 × platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, making it their highest-selling studio album in the U. S. and second-highest album overall.

There, she recorded four studio albums, and charted several singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

Over the next few years, House recorded several studio albums and went on various tours until his death in 1988.

The band released several albums related to the Talking Light concept, including the instrumental albums Dollar General and Chuck's Ghost Music, live album Bimbo's Talking Light, and studio album Lonely Teenager.

Although movie audiences had shrunk, Warner's new management believed in the drawing power of stars, signing co-production deals with several of the biggest names of the day, among them Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, and Clint Eastwood, carrying the studio successfully through the 1970s and 1980s.

His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Filming in England proved a difficult experience, as he was used to his own Hollywood studio and familiar crew.

In Hollywood, a screening of a restored version of How to Make Movies was held at his former studio, and in Japan, he was honoured with a musical tribute.

Enter the Dragon was the first Chinese martial arts film to have been produced by a major Hollywood studio – Warner Bros. and was produced in association with Golden Harvest and Lee's Concord Production Company.

This was the largest civil verdict ever against a Hollywood studio.

In 1926, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. introduced the " Vitaphone " system, producing short films of live entertainment acts and public figures and adding recorded sound effects and orchestral scores to some of its major features.

In the case of the U. S., some historians credit sound with saving the Hollywood studio system in the face of the Great Depression ( Parkinson, 1995 ).

" Many studio heads agreed nor did they want negative feelings about Hollywood to be instilled in political leaders.

Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Lang joined the MGM studio and directed the crime drama Fury, starring Spencer Tracy as a man wrongly accused of a crime and then attacked by lynch mob who burn down the jail where he is awaiting trial and it is assumed they killed him in the flames, but did not.

He made twenty-one features in the next twenty-one years, working in a variety of genres at every major studio in Hollywood, occasionally producing his films as an independent.

During this period, his visual style simplified ( owing in part to the constraints of the Hollywood studio system ) and his worldview became increasingly pessimistic, culminating in the cold, geometric style of his last American films, While the City Sleeps ( 1956 ) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 1956 ).

The Hollywood on the Tiber phenomenon of 1958 in which American studios profited from the cheap studio labour available in Rome provided the backdrop for photojournalists to steal shots of celebrities on the via Veneto.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

They quickly made friends with Hollywood insider ( and fellow Ivy Leaguer ) Allan Dwan, but Hawks landed his first important job when he used his family's wealth to loan money to studio head Jack Warner.

Leaving Fox on sour terms didn't help his reputation, but Hawks was one of the few people in Hollywood who never backed down from fights with studio heads.

Hawks told her that she meant nothing to Bogart and even threatened to send her to Monogram, the worst studio in Hollywood.

The next day Berry took their recording to Radio Recorders, a small Hollywood recording studio, to have it transferred to an acetate disc.

He quickly developed a reputation as a character actor, and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of the bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy The Ref ( 1994 ), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire Swimming with Sharks, and the malevolent office manager in the all-star ensemble film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ), gaining him positive notices by critics.

The reason for the confusion is that existing live recordings of the song ( included in the Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl film and on the albums Live at Drury Lane and Live at City Center ) have the " Schopenhauer and Hegel " version, while the studio recording on Matching Tie and Handkerchief features the " Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel " version.

Also, it is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

This decision broke up Adolph Zukor's creation and effectively brought an end to the classic Hollywood studio system.

Paramount is the last major film studio located in Hollywood proper.

The recently refurbished studio has come to symbolize Hollywood for many visitors, and its studio tour is a popular attraction.