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5 days ago · Gathering a group of business partners he called the “Dynamite Gang” or the “Wrecking Crew,” Adolph Zukor traveled across the south buying up struggling theaters at a record clip.
5 days ago · Paramount Pictures Corp. was established in 1914 by W.W. Hodkinson as a film distributor, offering Adolph Zukor ’s Famous Players Film Company, the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, and other producers an outlet for their movies.
21 hours ago · Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film [ 1 ] directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace 's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg, but ...
4 days ago · Thomas Edison c. Adolph Zukor d. None of the above. d. Popular movie actors in the early 1900s _____. p.g.201 a. were free to work for any studio that was hiring b ...
1 day ago · Despite Laemmle's role as an innovator, he was an extremely cautious studio chief. Unlike rivals Adolph Zukor, William Fox, and Marcus Loew, Laemmle chose not to develop a theater chain. He also financed all of his own films, refusing to take on debt.
5 days ago · The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is awarded to countries, not individuals. This list contains Jewish directors of nominated films, who typically accept the award on behalf of their country. Best International Feature Film. Year.
4 days ago · Adolph Zukor formed the Famous Players Company in 1912 to... instrumental in raising the salaries of film actors. Mary Pickford was... movies were made using an assembly-line process.
