The Famous Players–Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's...
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1927, Famous Players–Lasky was reorganized under the name Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, later becoming the Paramount Pictures Corporation. In 1927...
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Paramount Pictures (redirect from Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Company)
Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation. In 1916, Zukor engineered a three-way merger of his Famous Players,...
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The Famous name was previously used by Famous Players Film Company, one of several companies which in 1912 became Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, the...
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Lasky Feature Play Company to form Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, which later became Paramount Pictures. In 1915, the company established Famous Players...
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company founded by Adolph Zukor Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, a partnership with Adolph Zukor's company and Jesse L. Lasky that became Paramount Pictures...
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Cecil B. DeMille, and producer, Jesse L. Lasky, are both associated with Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, dubbed “the world’s greatest motion picture...
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was Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Company. The two companies merged on 28 June 1916, forming the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation. Zukor had been quietly...
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by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. It was released by Famous Players–Lasky, a division of Paramount Pictures. Kru, the farmer depicted in the...
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meeting as a Delaware corporation on January 21, 1925. It merged with Lubliner and Trinz in July 1925. Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, forerunner of Paramount...
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Film Corporation films but beginning in 1919, the Rialto Theatre premiered many releases by Paramount Pictures (then known as the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation)...
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predecessor, the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, to publish music from its "talking pictures." Some of the classic songs in the Famous Music catalog that...
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Locke The Grim Game – Famous Players–Lasky/Paramount Pictures (1919) – playing Harvey Handford Terror Island – Famous Players Lasky/Paramount (1920) – playing...
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and Weiss, Charged in "Joan" Theft, Are Held in New York: Famous Players–Lasky Corporation Accuse Three Man Now Held for Grand Jury Hearing on $2,000...
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incorporated in 1923. A controlling interest was purchased in 1926 by Famous Players–Lasky Corporation in exchange for thirteen million dollars in stock. On July...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918 film) (category Famous Players-Lasky films)
Searle Dawley, produced by Famous Players–Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players–Lasky name. The film is based...
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the 1923 silent film version of the same name, produced by Famous Players–Lasky Corporation When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small...
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publishing company (created in 1928 by Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, Paramount's predecessor), and the Famous Studios animation studio (which would be...
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Cecil B. DeMille (redirect from DeMille Pictures Corporation)
Lasky Feature Play Company merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company, becoming Famous Players–Lasky. Zukor became president with Lasky as...
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Canyon National Park in Utah. Produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon for Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, the film was released on April 9, 1927, in the United States...
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Baxter, Raymond Hatton, and Walter McGrail. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is considered...
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The first motion picture version was made in 1918 by the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, with 14-year-old Lila Lee as Mary and Paul Willis as Dickon...
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was named for Oliver Morosco. In 1916, it was acquired by Famous Players–Lasky Corporation and became a subsidiary. Charles Eyton was appointed to supervise...
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Clinton High School, he took a job as an office boy for the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation where his brother-in-law, B. P. Schulberg, was an executive...
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Pictures Eternal Pictures Fairway Film Alliance Famous Players Film Company Famous Players–Lasky Corporation Films Around The World First Run Features First...
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was young and wild, 'Wild Bill' fought and loved and adventured with such famous frontiersmen as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp." In reality, Earp was a virtually...
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The Restless Sex (category Famous Players-Lasky films)
Chambers and was distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation name. A copy of The Restless Sex is housed at the Library of...
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Hearts of the World (category Famous Players-Lasky films)
Productions, Famous Players–Lasky Corporation and the War Office Committee was distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Artcraft Pictures Corporation banner...
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Hollywood Heritage Museum (redirect from Lasky-DeMille Barn)
with Stern. In 1916, the Lasky Company merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players to become The Famous Players - Lasky Corporation, and in 1917 merged with...
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Elmer took over the company. Soon after, in 1926, Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, the forerunner of Paramount Pictures, bought a controlling...
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