• Poverty Row is a slang term for small Hollywood studios that produced B movies from the 1920s to the 1950s, typically with much smaller budgets and lower...
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    neighborhood venues, or "nabes". Even smaller production houses, known as Poverty Row studios, made films whose costs might run as low as $3,000, seeking a...
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    product of the Poverty Row studios, that same paradigm shift would also lead to the decline and ultimate disappearance of "Poverty Row" as a Hollywood...
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  • like the other so-called Poverty Row studios, was based in a small plot off Sunset Strip, by Gower Street. An early Poverty Row studio, it was a forerunner...
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    territories by poverty rate covers the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and their populations' poverty rate. The...
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    in Vancouver; Skid Row in Los Angeles; the Tenderloin District of San Francisco; and the Bowery of Lower Manhattan. The term Poverty Flats is used for...
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  • first feature, until 1939. During these years Columbia emerged from Poverty Row to become one of the eight major studios of Hollywood. Owned by Paramount...
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    for Skid Row residents was approximately $12,070, where 68.9% of the population was below the poverty line. The overall income for Skid Row continued...
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    cities. Even smaller outfits—the sort typical of Hollywood's so-called Poverty Row—made films whose production costs might run as low as $3,000, seeking...
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  • initially founded upon Yates' acquisition of six smaller independent Poverty Row studios. In the depths of the Great Depression, Yates' laboratory was...
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  • of the 1940s. It was considered a prime example of what was called "Poverty Row": a low-rent stretch of Gower Street in Hollywood where shoestring film...
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    market." In the book Poverty Row Horrors! (1993), Tom Weaver judges The Devil Bat as one of Lugosi's best films for the poverty row studios. PRC's 1946...
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    picture studio in operation from 1921 until 1932. It is considered a Poverty Row studio, whose films had lower budgets, lesser-known stars, and overall...
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    in the golden age of Hollywood, generally referred to collectively as Poverty Row. Lacking the financial resources to deliver the lavish sets, production...
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  • on October 5, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2016. Fred Olen Ray, The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors, McFarland, 1991, p 28-29 Goldman...
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    business for nearly a decade beginning in 1942 with the purchase of Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and Pathé's subsequent establishment...
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    1966) was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in Poverty Row Westerns. Rex Lease arrived in Hollywood in 1924. He found bit and supporting...
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  • Phil Rosen, and Charles Lamont. Chesterfield was one of a number of Poverty Row studios taken over by Herbert Yates in 1935 and merged into his newly...
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    leading man Jack Holt. Columbia was unable to shake off its stigma as a Poverty Row studio until 1934, when director Frank Capra's Columbia comedy It Happened...
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    stunt riders in low-budget Western films for the small movie studios on Poverty Row. They introduced him to another Montana cowboy, rodeo champion Jay "Slim"...
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  • Pictures was an American film production company of the 1930s. Part of Poverty Row, the company produced low-budget B pictures. It was one of two companies...
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    He played the lead, with his name over the title, in many low-budget Poverty Row Westerns, mostly at Monogram Pictures and serials for Mascot Pictures...
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    studios, but could find work at minor film studios on what was called Poverty Row. Robinson's roles included an insurance investigator in the film noir...
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    released by the Producers Releasing Corporation, one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in mid-20th-century Hollywood. The film, which today is...
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  • specialized in low-budget productions and was one of the more stable Poverty Row outfits during the period. It also gained a reputation for producing...
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  • movies between 1918 and 1941, and is best known for directing early "Poverty Row"-produced Westerns starring John Wayne in the 1930s, and being the father...
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  • produced and distributed as a low-budget second feature by the independent Poverty Row studio Reliable Pictures. Tom Tyler as Tom Rork Joan Barclay as Gloria...
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  • operated by the major studios, but could find work at minor film studios on Poverty Row This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Greylisting...
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  • Helen Foster and Wheeler Oakman. It was distributed by the independent Poverty Row studio Allied Pictures. The hot-tempered Jimmy Duncan is sent by his...
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  • Oakman. It was distributed by Monogram Pictures, one of the leading Poverty Row independents of Hollywood. Betty Compson as Maizie Claudia Dell as Ruth...
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