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3 days ago · 1927 Oscar Winner "Wings": The Ultimate WWI Aerial Combat Film Of All Time. " Wings " is the only aviation combat film to win a Best Picture Oscar, illustrating realism and authenticity in aerial action. The movie features real flights and actors in the cockpit for realistic dogfighting scenes.
3 days ago · The previous year, Adolph Zukor had formed Famous Players in Famous Plays. It was later known as Famous Players–Lasky and then Paramount Pictures, one of the first American feature film companies. [citation needed] Mary Pickford, 1916. Pickford left the stage to join Zukor's roster of stars.
15 hours ago · When Hodkinson denied Paramount partners Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky more of the profits, Zukor - in a Machiavellian plot - devised a coup. Zukor and Lasky sold Hodkinson more of their film rights and, using that money, they purchased Paramount stock to, by 1916, gain a majority of it. Then with Abrams, James Steele and William Sherry, they ...
4 days ago · Plot. A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
5 days ago · The Marx brothers, born Leonard, Adolph, Julius, Milton, and Herbert, would become Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo. A sixth brother, Mannie, was born first, but he died in infancy of ...
4 days ago · For more than three decades, from early silent films through the advent of “talkies,” figures such as D.W. Griffith, Goldwyn, Adolph Zukor, William Fox, Louis B. Mayer, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Harry Cohn served as overlords of the great film studios—Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Warner ...
2 days ago · Overview of Adolf Hitler's rise to power. See all videos for this article. When Hitler finally became chancellor, on January 30, 1933, it was not on the crest of a wave of popular support but as the result of backroom political intrigue by Schleicher, Papen, and the president’s son, Oskar von Hindenburg. Only Hitler, they believed, could ...
