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Zukor believed film's potential lay in recording theatrical players in replicas of their most famous stage roles and productions.
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Zukor and believed
Because Zukor believed in stars, he signed and developed many of the leading early stars, including Mary Pickford, Marguerite Clark, Pauline Frederick, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Wallace Reid.
Zukor and potential
According to Clara Bow biographer David Stenn, Zukor proposed to Schulberg that he wanted to merge Preferred Pictures with Paramount, so that he could get Bow and make a star out of her, due to what Zukor saw as the great potential that she had as an actress.
Zukor and theatrical
Zukor was also a member of The Lambs, a theatrical socail group started in NYC in 1874.
Zukor and players
The deal, guided by president Zukor, eventually resulted in the incorporation of eight film production companies, making the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation one of the biggest players of the silent film era.
Zukor and their
Zukor agreed to buy the San Francisco theaters of the Graumans and also to assist them with financing in beginning their theater business in Los Angeles.
replaced the Paramount logo with their ( usually ) blue shield logo, and removed all references to Paramount Pictures, except for the phrase " Adolph Zukor presents ".
While initially the agreement seemed like a good deal, it wasn't long before Zukor and Lasky realized that they could make much higher revenues if they could integrate the production and distribution of their films.
Zukor and most
Eventually, Zukor shed most of his early partners ; the Frohman brothers, Hodkinson and Goldwyn were out by 1917 while Lasky hung on until 1932, when, blamed for the near-collapse of Paramount in the Depression years, he too was tossed out.
" Adolph Zukor, chairman of Paramount, stated, " Irving Thalberg was the most brilliant young man in the motion picture business.
Shortly after, in partnership with Adolph Zukor and others, Loew acquired a nickelodeon and over time he turned Loew's Theatres into the most prestigious chain of movie theaters in the United States.
On Frohman's death in the Lusitania in 1915, she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor, though most of her early movies are lost.
Zukor and stage
Their primary goal was to bring noted stage actors to the screen and Zukor went on to produce The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1913 ).
Zukor and productions
With Harry now refusing to allow further Vitaphone productions, Paramount head Adolph Zukor took advantage of the situation and tried to offer Sam a deal as an executive producer for his studio if he brought Vitaphone with him.
Zukor and .
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.
* 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer ( d. 1976 )
In 1912, Adolph Zukor had formed Famous Players in Famous Plays – later Famous Players-Lasky and then Paramount Pictures – one of the first American feature film companies.
Zukor first filmed Pickford in a silent version of A Good Little Devil.
" Zukor agreed ; he held the film back from distribution for a year.
In 1916, Pickford signed a new contract with Zukor that granted her full authority over production of the films in which she starred, and a record-breaking salary of $ 500 a week.
Founder Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, saw that movies appealed mainly to working-class immigrants.
By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success.
Soon the ambitious Zukor, unused to taking a secondary role, began courting Hodkinson and Lasky.
On September 28, 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount.
The new company, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, grew quickly, with Lasky and his partners Goldwyn and DeMille running the production side, Hiram Abrams in charge of distribution, and Zukor making great plans.
The driving force behind Paramount's rise was Zukor.
Zukor also hired independent producer B. P. Schulberg, an unerring eye for new talent, to run the new West Coast studio.
A bank-mandated reorganization team, led by John Hertz and Otto Kahn kept the company intact, and, miraculously, kept Zukor on.
in 1936, Barney Balaban became president, and Zukor was bumped up to chairman of the board.
In this role, Zukor reorganized the company as Paramount Pictures, Inc. and was able to successfully bring the studio out of bankruptcy.
Founding father Adolph Zukor ( born in 1873 ) was still chairman emeritus ; he referred to chairman Barney Balaban ( born 1888 ) as " the boy.
Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor.
believed and film's
Jordan also believed the film's success was a result of the film's British / Irish political issues being either lesser-known or completely unknown to American audiences, who thus flocked to the film for what Jordan called " the sexual politics.
Nevertheless, Hentzi believed that the film's themes of materialism and conformity in American suburbia were " hackneyed ".
In the latter film, Garfield took a featured, but supporting, part because he believed deeply in the film's exposé of antisemitism in America.
Though Kieślowski believed the film's message was anti-authoritarian, he was criticized by his colleagues for cooperating with the government in its production.
* August 6-BBC withdraws a planned airing of The War Game on BBC1's Wednesday Play anthology series ; the network, officially, deems the film's depiction of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom and its aftermath as " too horrifying " to air on television, though it was widely believed that government pressure led to the banning.
Ebert believed the film's visual effects were as revolutionary as Star Wars, taking into account that Nightmare was " filled with imagination that carries us into a new world ".
Director George Lucas was one of the film's producers, but refused screen credit because he believed the film's racy content would reflect badly on Lucasfilm's image
It is believed that when SD Burman fell ill during the recording of the film's music, RD Burman took over and completed the music.
In addition, festival officials distributed information before the film's screening that indicated Dole believed the film to be factually inaccurate.
Some jazz critics and aficionados cited the participation of Marsalis and Crouch specifically as reasons for what they believed to be the film's undue focus on traditional and straight-ahead jazz.
William Katt explained in a 1979 interview with Roger Ebert a year after the film's release that he believed the movie's failure was due to the movie's marketing focusing only on the fight scenes and surfing angle.
The smoke in the novel was described as an ink-like vapour, but the film's smoke is believed to be a kind of toxic gas.
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