#Adolph Zukor

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Dorothy Lamour helping Adolph Zukor celebrate his birthday in 1952.

[oldshowbiz]

Adolph Linick convinced Adolph Zukor, Marcus Loew, and William Fox to abandon the fur business and get into the movies. 

Eventually he moved to Hollywood and lived in this colonial style mansion at 1343 Laurel Avenue.

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Rose Bowl (1936)

Theatrical Poster

Paramount Pictures

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[memolands]

Paramount Pictures Studio - One of the world's oldest surviving film studio in Los Angeles

Paramount Pictures Studio – One of the world’s oldest surviving film studio in Los Angeles

  The American film and television production and distribution company, dates its existence from the 1912 founding date of the Famous Players Film Company. Hungarian-born founder Adolph Zukor with partners, Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman, he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class. Its first film was Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth, which starred Sarah…

[spacelazarwolf]

in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

[heaveninawildflower]

I posted the FAB silk postcard of the American actress, Maude Fealy a couple of weeks ago and said that I would post some more about her, here a are few more images of Maude from my collection of postcards and photographs.

The first postcard shows Maude as Alice Faulkner from the play 'Sherlock Holmes.' The third one shows Maude as Eunice from 'Quo Vadis'.

The sixth postcard shows a winning photograph by Burr McIntosh from the French magazine 'Paris Figaro Illustre.' Maude's photograph was sent to their competition (to find the most beautiful woman in the world) by the American photographer, William Burr McIntosh. Maude was the winner, chosen from out of 30, 000 entrants from all over the world.

Some information about Maude from Wikimedia.

Maude Mary Hawk was born on March 3/4, 1881-3 in Memphis, Tennessee (the dates vary depending upon the source) the daughter of actress Margaret Fealy and James Hawk, who divorced. Maude took her mother's name, Fealy.

In 1896, she made her debut at the Elitch Theatre in Denver playing various children's roles. Her first appearance was during the week of July 19 in Henry Churchill de Mille's The Lost Paradise. In 1905, Churchill de Mille's son Cecil B. DeMille was hired as a stock player at Elitch Theatre, and Maude appeared as the featured actress in several plays. Their friendship continued for decades, including when DeMille cast Maude in his film The Ten Commandments.

Maude made her Broadway debut in the 1900 production of Quo Vadis, again with her mother.

Maude toured England with William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes from 1901 to 1902. Between 1902 and 1905, she frequently toured with Sir Henry Irving's company in the United Kingdom, and by 1907, she was the star in touring productions in the United States.

In Denver, Colorado, Maude met a drama critic from a local newspaper named Louis Hugo Sherwin (son of opera singer Amy Sherwin). The two married in secret on July 15, 1907, because, as they expected, her domineering mother did not approve. The couple soon separated and divorced in Denver in 1909. Maude then married actor James Peter Durkin. He was a silent film director with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company. This marriage ended in divorce for non-support in 1917. Soon after this, Maude married John Edward Cort. This third marriage ended in a 1923 annulment and was her last marriage. She bore no children in any of the marriages.

Maude died on November 10, 1971.

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Marie Doro (born Marie Katherine Stewart; May 25, 1882 – October 9, 1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era.

She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty.

On Frohman's death in the RMS Lusitania in 1915, she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor; most of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances.

In the early 1950s author Daniel Blum interviewed and included her in his book Great Stars of the American Stage, an homage to many theater performers, some dead, some still living at the time like Doro. Blum wrote a quick and mostly accurate run-down of her life and career and included several portraits from her Broadway years. He also included an early-1950s photo for fans who remembered but hadn't seen her in decades.

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Mae West with Paramount president Adolph Zukor and director Leo McCarey on set of “It Ain’t No Sin”, later “Belle of the Nineties” (1934)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.7

Beer Birthdays

John Kress (1825)

John G. Schemm (1834)

Matthew Nunan (d. 1916, b. 1834)

Harry Schumacher (1969)

Daniel Llinas (1970)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Charles Addams; cartoonist (1912)

Albert Bierstadt; artist (1830)

Nicolas Cage; actor (1964)

Millard Fillmore; 13th U.S. President (1800)

Jean-Pierre Rampal; flutist (1922)

Famous Birthdays

Red Allen; jazz trumpeter (1906)

Nicholson Baker; writer (1957)

Sandra Bernhard; comedian (1955)

William Peter Blatty; screenwriter (1928)

David Caruso; actor (1956)

Tony Conogliaro; Boston Red Sox OF (1945)

Katie Couric; news anchor (1957)

Kenny Davern; clarinetist/saxophonist (1935)

Lyndsy Fonseca; actress (1987)

Vincent Gardenia; actor (1920)

Erin Gray; actor (1950)

James Harrington; English philosopher (1611)

William Hurlstone; English pianist, composer (1876)

Zora Neale Hurston; writer (1891)

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; politician (1966)

Linda Kozlowski; actor (1958)

Kenny Loggins; pop musician (1948)

Robert Longo; artist (1953)

Mike McGear; musician, Paul McCartney's brother (1944)

Butterfly McQueen; actor (1911)

Thurman Munson; New York Yankees C (1947)

Sofi Oksanen; Finnish author (1977)

Charles Péguy; French philosopher (1873)

Francis Poulenc; composer, pianist (1899)

Maury Povich; television show host (1939)

Rand Paul; politician (1963)

Jeremy Renner; actor (1971)

Paul Revere; rock musician (1938)

Kathy Valentine; bass player (1959)

John E. Walker; English chemist (1941)

Jann Wenner; Rolling Stone magazine founder (1946)

Adolph Zukor; Hungarian-American film producer (1873)

[citizenscreen]

Director Frank Lloyd, Claudette Colbert, and Adolph Zukor on set of MAID OF SALEM at Paramount Studios, October 1936.

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Why Is Shari Redstone, Ruler of a Vast Media Kingdom, Weighing a Sale?

Paramount Pictures, the storied studio behind hits like “The Godfather” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” has had several owners over the last century: Its co-founder, Adolph Zukor. The industrial conglomerate Gulf+Western. At one point, it was a stand-alone public company. But for nearly three decades, Paramount’s fate has been controlled by the Redstone family, after its pugnacious patriarch,…

[berezina]

The stages were freezing in the winter, steaming hot in the summer. The dressing rooms were windowless cubicles. We rode on the freight elevator, crushed by lights and electricians. But none of that mattered, because the writers, directors, and cast were free from all supervision. Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor, and Walter Wanger never left the Paramount office on Fifth Avenue, and the head of production never came on the set. There were writers and directors from Princeton and Yale. Motion pictures did not consume us. When work finished, we dressed in evening clothes, dined at the Colony or '21', and went to the theatre.

The difference in Hollywood was that the studio was run by B.P. Schulberg, a coarse exploiter who propositioned every actress and policed every set. To love books was a big laugh. There was no theatre, no opera, no concerts—just those god-damned movies.

~Louise Brooks

[clarklovescarole]

November 1936: Divorces and Rings

Nov. 1, 1936 – St. Louis Globe Democrat

Carole Lombard is now the center of interest in what may be a violation of code protecting the producers’ contracts with stars. Still under Paramount contract, Carole has admittedly received offers from Metro looking to her teaming with her favorite boy friend, Clark Gable. 

Nov. 1, 1936 – The San Francisco Examiner

Buzz, buzz, buzz at all the bridge parties, teas and dinners that Mrs. Clark Gable has fallen in love again. Smart and attractive, Mrs. Gable has won the admiration of a certain man whose name we are honor bound not to tell. But when she is legally free, we will have a story that will be front page news.

Nov. 1, 1936 – The Des Moines Register

Began as a gag! Clark Gable and Carole Lombard started going places together for publicity. Now it has become serious. Clark is waiting for his divorce from his second wife.

Nov. 3, 1936 – Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph

Clark Gable will consult his attorneys here this week regarding absolute divorce… 

Nov. 4, 1936 – Morning Free Press

Carole Lombard is toting a large diamond and ruby ring, but on the right hand…

Nov. 8, 1936 – Chicago Tribune

In New York on business, Clark Gable, movie actor, denied reports that he went east to consult a lawyer about a divorce.

Nov. 10, 1936 – Chattanooga Daily News

Clark Gable curtailed his New York visit because the autographists would not leave him alone… Carole Lombard spotted in her studio restaurant lunching on orange juice, grapefruit freeze and coffee. No wonder she complains of feeling below par. 

Nov. 24, 1936 – The Mercury

Carole Lombard has arranged an intimate dinner party at her new home in Bel Air, swanky suburb. Guests will include Fieldsie, her secretary, her mother, brother and sister-in-law who reside in Hollywood. And, to sustain romantic rumors, perhaps Clark Gable. 

Nov. 25, 1936 – Edmonton Journal News

Maybe the 27-year-old Carole Lombard – married to Powell, 1931, divorced, 1933 – could explain to Miss Harlow some of the difficulties that go with loving an older man. Carole is now confining her companionship to Clark Gable, still on the sunny side of 40. Their marriage, however, is doubtful. Clark, if his two previous marriages can be taken as a criterion, believes in May-December unions – with the mate younger than the missus! 

Nov. 26, 1936 – Hardwick Gazette

Clark Gable abandoned his New York vacation after three days of being almost torn apart by autograph seekers and enthusiastic fans, and Carole Lombard didn’t even start for the East after hearing what had happened to him. 

Nov. 28, 1936 – The Atlanta Constitution 

(Sheilah Graham)

Clark Gable prefers shooting ducks these days to acting as Carole Lombard’s escort. 

Nov. 28, 1936 – The Philadelphia Inquirer 

The biggest happening over the Thanksgiving holiday was the new contract which Carole Lombard signed with Adolph Zukor. Carole remains with Paramount on a straight three-year agreement, which gives her just what she asked in the way of salary and privileges. She makes three a year for the home studio with the right to go outside to make other deals. 

Nov. 28, 1936 – The Record

Movie folk agreed today Hollywood’s champion fresh air fiends are the people who had Thanksgiving dinner on a hill overlooking Barbara Stanwyck’s farm, about 25 miles from here. 

They are Miss Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Hobert Taylor, Marian Marx, and her husband, Zeppo Marx, former movie comedian. The six spread a table cloth on the brow of the hill and brought all the ingredients for an old fashioned picnic. There is no automobile road from the plain below. 

“We’ve been going out there every time we have a spare moment,” Miss Stanwyck explained, “but we hadn’t thought of having Thanksgiving out there. The ranchhouse hasn’t even got a kitchen yet. So when we did decide to spend the holiday, we had to eat outside.”

Nov. 29, 1936 – Richmond Times Dispatch

As far as Clark Gable is concerned, Hollywood has filled suddenly with bearded men. Since the controversy over whether or not he will wear a beard in “Parnell,” he literally has been surrounded by men with big and little beards, shaggy or bushy beards, sideburns or chin whiskers. They follow him to his hotel, sit next to him in restaurants, picket his car and even stop in the street. 

Clark is practically certain Carole Lombard is back of it all, though he hasn’t enough evidence to accuse her outright. 

“But don’t you worry about my getting even,” he writes. “If I ever get the goods on her, it’ll be duck soup to pay her back.”

Nov. 29, 1936 – The Charlotte Observer

CLARK GABLE IS TRAILED BY BEARDED MEN 

Hollywood gagsters, said to be headed by Carole Lombard, have been having a field day over Clark Gable’s reluctance to wear a bear in MGM’s “Parnell.” For several days, Gable has been trailed by bewhiskered men who have popped up wherever he has gone. They have followed him to his hotel, sat next to him in restaurants, paraded in front of his door and stopped him on the street. 

The star has received boxes of false whiskers, hair grower, bear trimmers and mustache wax. As a topper, a bearded man with a sandwich board picketed Gable’s dressing room. On the board was painted, “Whiskers are not sanitary.”  

Nov. 29, 1936 – St. Louis Globe Democrat

Carole Lombard is taking tap-dancing lessons, with Clark Gable adding his advice… 

Nov. 29, 1936 – The San Francisco Examiner

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable are really something to watch at various Los Angeles sporting events. They never root for the same fighters at the boxing matches or for the same teams at the football games. 

At the recent struggle between University of Southern California and UCLA Carole was yelling her lungs out for USC and Clark was tearing his hat to pieces over the other team. Some wag suggested: “Why not Gable vs. Lombard in the Rose Bowl?” 

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Hungarian Film Apro Mesek won Award of Distinction at 15th Global Film Festival Noida

Noida: The 15th Global Film Festival was well received by the audience from all over India and abroad. Every film was screened before the full house of film lovers. Hungarian film Apro Medek-Tall Tales was well appreciated by the film makers and film goers on the first day of the festival.

“Hungarian has had a notable cinema industry since the beginning of the 20th century, including Hungarians who affected the world of motion pictures both within and beyond the country’s borders. The former could be characterized by directors Istvan Szabo, Bela Tarr, or Miklos Jancso the latter by William Fox and Adolph Zukor, the founders of Fox Studios and Paramount Pictures respectively, or Alexander Korda, who played a leading role in the early period of British cinema. . Examples of successful Hungarian films include Merry go Round, Mephisto, Werckmeister Harmonies and Kontroll,” informed Sandeep Marwah President of Marwah Studios and Chair for Indo Hungarian Film and Cultural Forum.

“In the rubble and ruin of war’s aftermath, an opportunistic con man named Balász pretends to be a close friend of soldiers killed in the war and insinuate his way into their families and their bank accounts. It’s a dangerous game and gets him into such serious trouble he must flee Budapest to save his skin. When he is given shelter in a remote forest by a woman named Judit and her son, Balász’s con man trickery fades as he finds himself falling in love. Things go well in their passionate affair until Judit’s brutish husband returns home from the front,” story of Tall Tales was narrated by Dr Mariann Erdo Cultural Counselor Embassy of Hungary.

Lt. Col. Laszlo Kovari Defence Attache Embassy of Hungary and Katianna Ley Actress from Slovenia also spoke on the occasions. The event was supported by International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry & Indo Hungarian Film and Cultural Forum. Later Dr. Sandeep Marwah presented the Award of Distinction to Dr Mariann Erdo for the film Tall Tales.

[everything-anything3345]

Adolph Zukor & Jesse Lasky presents "The Letter ". (1929). Early Talkie. Starring Jeanne Eagels. This is the climatic scene that she was nominated for. Released on April 13,1929. Bette Davis would do the remake in 1940.