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    Marcus Loew (/loʊ/; May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loew's Theatres...
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    called "Loew's," after the name of its founder, Marcus Loew. In 1969, when the Tisch brothers acquired the company, it became known as "Loews." The company...
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    His paternal grandfather, Marcus Loew, founded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Loew's Theaters, and his father, Arthur Loew, was a president of M-G-M...
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  • Nils Granlund (category Loews Cineplex Entertainment)
    entrepreneur and radio industry pioneer. He was a publicist for Marcus Loew who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Although his birth name...
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  • Studios subsidiary of Amazon since 2022. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was formed by Marcus Loew by combining Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Pictures...
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    People with the name Marcus or its variants include: In art and literature Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, Flemish artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger...
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    Marcus Loew, an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry Mattias Löw (born 1970), a Swedish film director Michael Loew (1907–1985)...
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    opened branches in Boston, Philadelphia, and Newark, with funding by Marcus Loew. By 1910, Zukor already owned a nickelodeon chain and became Leow's partner...
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    Nicholas Schenck (category Loews Cineplex Entertainment)
    acquaintance of Marcus Loew, a theater operator. Loew persuaded them to buy two film theaters and the brothers started to work with Loew in the theater...
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  • born on October 5, 1897, to MGM founder Marcus Loew. After being elected to the board of directors of Loew's, Inc., in 1922, he resigned from the studio...
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    Cineplex Odeon Corporation (category Loews Cineplex Entertainment)
    Odeon Theatres merged with New York City-based Loews Theatres (founded in 1904 by Marcus Loew) to form Loews Cineplex Entertainment. Alliance Atlantis purchased...
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    Universal Pictures. In 1924, the company was part of a series of mergers by Marcus Loew that brought together Metro Pictures and Goldwyn Pictures into a single...
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  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with another Jew, this one with parents from Austria, Marcus Loew. And Warner Bros. was founded by the brothers Warner: Harry, Albert,...
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    Pictures in 1922. On April 10, 1924, Goldwyn Pictures was acquired by Marcus Loew and merged into his Metro Pictures Corporation, becoming Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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    In 1920, the company was purchased by Marcus Loew as a supplier of product for his theater chain. However, Loew was not satisfied with the amount or quality...
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  • theatre was acquired by the motion picture empire of Marcus Loew, and re-opened as a movie theatre, Loew's 42nd Street Theatre, in 1917. It continued to operate...
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    Civic Theatre is the last remaining theater of 11 opened by Marcus Loew, founder of the Loew's theater chain. The Civic is located on South Main Street in...
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    the studio was formed by the merger of Samuel Goldwyn's studio with Marcus Loew's Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer's company in 1924, several different...
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    mainly managed by his movie makers. Following the 1927 death of Marcus Loew, head of Loews Incorporated, the parent company of rival studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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  • September 5 – Nicholas Schenck becomes president of Loews Inc. following the death of Marcus Loew. September 7 – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit debuts in Trolley...
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    Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner Brothers, David O. Selznick, Marcus Loew, and Adolph Zukor, Fox to name just a few, and continuing into recent...
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    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...
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    stages before selling his shares in Goldwyn Studios. In 1924, Loew's President Marcus Loew organized the mergers and acquisitions of three film companies –...
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    Building is on the site today. The theater was taken over by Marcus Loew in 1915 in his first Loew's Theaters venture outside New York, to present vaudeville...
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    Irving Thalberg from Universal as head of production) Loew's Inc., 1924–1959 (in 1924, Marcus Loew merged the first two studios and Louis B. Mayer offered...
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    Shubert of The Shubert Organization contacted Marcus Loew about merging the company with Loew's Metro Pictures. Loew agreed to the merger. Louis B. Mayer heard...
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    participants in the fledgling motion picture industry in partnership with Marcus Loew, operating a chain of movie theaters. In 1916, through his involvement...
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  • in November 1913, when Nils Granlund, the advertising manager for the Marcus Loew theater chain, produced a short promotional film for the musical The...
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    the same position as vice president in charge of production. Marcus Loew, owner of the Loew's chain, merged Metro Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn's Goldwyn Pictures...
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    Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures were merged by Marcus Loew to create the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film studio. Japanese businesses...
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