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	American Experience \| Mary Pickford \| People & Events \| PBS
		Adolph Zukor was one of the first people to make big profits in the movie business.
		Born in Ricse, Hungary, in 1873, Adolph Zukor was orphaned by age seven.
		Zukor knew from a young age, though, that he was destined for the world of business.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pickford/peopleevents/p_zukor.html (830 words)

	Adolph Zukor Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Adolph Zukor (1873-1976) was known as the "father of the feature film in America." From running penny arcades to creating Paramount Pictures Corporation, Zukor had a hand in the development of every aspect of the film industry.
		Adolph Zukor was born in the rural village of Risce, Hungary on January 7, 1873.
		Zukor described the audience's reaction in his autobiography: "The scene was one of the most remarkable I have ever witnessed.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/adolph-zukor (1509 words)

	Adolph Zukor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cukor Adolf (Adolph Zukor) (January 7, 1873–June 10, 1976) was the founder of Paramount Pictures Studios, and one of the greatest film moguls of all time.
		He was born to a Jewish family in Risce, Hungary, which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and immigrated to America in 1889, at the age of 16.
		Zukor was also an accomplished director and producer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolph_Zukor (471 words)

	Adolph Zukor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the original studio "moguls." Zukor arrived in the US at 16, got one of his first jobs as a furrier's apprentice and, over 80 years later, was still going to work every day -- at Paramount Pictures.
		Zukor worked his way up to become a well-heeled Chicago furrier and, in 1903, teamed with Marcus Loew to open the first of a series of penny arcades.
		Zukor assumed the token position of chairman of the board.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/zukor_a.htm (402 words)

	Adolph Zukor Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the original studio "moguls." Zukor arrived in the USA at 16, got one of his first jobs as a furrier's apprentice and, over 80 years later, was still going to work every day--at Paramount Pictures.
		Zukor went into films on his own in 1912 and reaped a windfall as the US distributor of the four-reel European production "Queen Elizabeth." With his profits he formed Famous Players, a production and distribution company modeled after France's Film d'Art, which filmed popular plays starring renowned stage performers.
		Zukor assumed the token position of chairman of the board and received a special Academy Award in 1948 for his "contribution to the industry".
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/197336 (452 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Adolph Zukor (1873-1976) was born in Ricse, Hungary.
		Zukor was president of Paramount until 1935, when the company was reorganized; he remained a figurehead (chairman of the board emeritus) until his death.
		The Adolph Zukor Collection spans the years 1912-1977 (bulk 1920-1935) and encompasses 3 linear feet.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/zukor_196.html (288 words)

	FGA - First National Pictures
		Zukor's reasoning was that the stars controlled the audiences, and the audiences controlled the theater.
		At first Zukor did not fear the danger that the new company wielded until he saw that influential theater owners were banding together against him, one by one, and in essence boycotting Paramount products.
		Zukor's offer - while less - was comparable with one exception - First National would give her complete creative control, which Zukor refused to do.
	www.filmsofthegoldenage.com /foga/1998/winter98/firstnational.shtml (1243 words)

	American Legends Interviews..... Budd Schulberg -What Makes Sammy Run?
		One such immigrant was Adolph Zukor who had been orphaned as a child in Hungary and had risen from poverty to become a prosperous furrier in his adopted land.
		Adolph Zukor lured Mary Pickford away from Biograph, a Trust studio, at the fabulous salary of $250,000 a year.
		Adolph Zukor was a rough customer; a relative referred to him as "a shark." Zukor once fired an employee for exaggerating his skill at bridge.
	www.americanlegends.com /Interviews/what_makes_sammy_run.html (2947 words)

	Baby Name Adolph - Origin and Meaning of Adolph
		Adolph has 13 variant forms: Ad, Addolf, Addolph, Adolf, Adolfo, Adulfus, Adollf, Adolphe, Adolpho, Adolphus, Dolf, Dolph and Dolphus.
		Adolph is a common male first name, ranking 642 out of 1219 for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
		Adolph is a very popular surname, ranking 16658 out of 88799 for people of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
	www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Adolph (199 words)

	Behing-the-scenes intrigue at Paramount
		Zukor had become dissatisfied because he said that under the arrangement with the Paramount he was not receiving money enough to produce the kind of pictures he wanted and that he was threatened with the loss of some of his great stars, especially Mary Pickford.
		Zukor said, according to the witness, that if he stayed with Paramount he would be unable to keep his stars and maintain the quality of the pictures he was making.
		They had a conference, he said, in the course of which Zukor declared he found it impossible to get along with Hodkinson, and it was agreed among them that Abrams and Green were to see if they could not get two of the other four directors to vote with Abrams in deposing Hodkinson.
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/ftc-case_lichtman.htm (871 words)

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		Some later recaps of the Taylor case stated that on February 2, 1922, soon after Taylor's body was found, Adolph Zukor was at Taylor's bungalow, destroying evidence and burning compromising papers in Taylor's fireplace.
		Zukor was interviewed in New York by Louella Parsons on February 1, 1922.
		Zukor immediately went into seclusion and refused to be interviewed on any subject yesterday." Zukor was en route back to New York on February 24.
	www.public.asu.edu /~ialong/Taylor22.txt (9018 words)

	Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
		The respondents Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and Famous Players-Lasky Corporation have conspired and confederated together and from time to time with other persons unduly to hinder competition in the production, distribution and exhibition of motion picture films in interstate and foreign commerce and to control, dominate, monopolize or attempt to monopolize the motion-picture industry.
		All subsequent acts of respondents Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, as set forth in these findings were in pursuance and furtherance of said unlawful conspiracy as found in the fifth paragraph of these findings.
		In pursuance of such purpose, said Zukor in the fall of 1919 induced one Hulsey, reputed to be the strongest of the franchise holders in First National, to desert First National and enter employment under the control of Mr.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/9_ftc_3.htm (4596 words)

	Adolph Zukor \| 20th Century American Leaders Database
		Zukor independently built numerous theatres in major United States cities.
		Because of the popularity of these theatres, he began to invest heavily in movie production, convinced that big-name actors in large movies would be the future of the picture industry.
		In 1949, Paramount was forced to divest itself of the theatre chain business, but an undaunted Zukor moved on to his next challenge, capitalizing on the growing television industry, and building Paramount into a Hollywood production conglomerate.
	www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/1000 (90 words)

	Paramount Film Preservation
		Paramount now traces its history back to the 1912 formation of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company, but the Paramount Pictures Corporation name was first used by a film distribution company founded by William W. Hodkinson and other independent exhibitors in May of 1914.
		In May of 1916 Zukor and Lasky bought controlling shares of Paramount stock, and Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was incorporated, with Zukor as president, on May 19, 1916.
		Zukor and Lasky were reportedly not fond of the Paramount name—they thought audiences wouldn't know what it meant—but they realized the dominance of the mountain-top logo, so the Paramount name was retained as a trade name and Hodkinson's design soon began appearing on the new studio's releases.
	www.paramount.com /filmpreservation/history_logo.htm (886 words)

	TIME.com: Early Tycoon -- Jan. 19, 1953 -- Page 1
		In the flickery days of the nickelodeon, a little (5 ft. 5 in.) Hungarian immigrant named Adolph Zukor decided that the way to lure customers into his second-floor emporium in Manhattan was to give them a thrill.
		Zukor installed a glass stairway under which a waterfall tumbled down over electric lights.
		At Grauman's Chinese Theater, Zukor arrived by limousine to place his footprints in wet cement near those of such immortals as Betty Grable and Ava Gardner; the event went off without a hitch except for a slight delay when Zukor insisted on removing his good fl shoes and substituting an old pair.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,820903,00.html (553 words)

	Paramount > German-Hollywood Connection
		Zukor's own long 103-year life began in Austria-Hungary before his family brought him to New York when he was 15 years old.
		Before long, Zukor was the treasurer for Loew's burgeoning chain of movie theaters.
		It was Zukor who then hired Famous Players' key to success, a young actress named Mary Pickford.
	www.germanhollywood.com /param.html (646 words)

	Broadway To Vegas September 24, 2000
		Zukor told the fourteen year old to complete high school and "keep in touch".
		Facing such determination, Zukor hired the 18-year-old Lyles after he graduated from Andrew Jackson High School and arrived in California in 1937 with $48, two jars of peanut butter and two loaves of bread.
		Adolph Zukor took a personal interest in Lyles and, when he transferred to the New York office, Zukor introduced the young man to Y. Frank Freeman, the new studio boss.
	www.broadwaytovegas.com /September24,2000.html (2995 words)

	Baring the Heart of Hollywood
		Garbutt, like Zukor, is a good family man without a breath of scandal against his reputation as far as relations with women are concerned.
		Zukor can go into a meeting held by men who are his bitter business rivals and in half an hour send them away wondering how they could have so misjudged him.
		Zukor, however, evidently feared the possible combination of Garbutt and Hodkinson to his disadvantage and it was not long before Hodkinson, too, walked the plank.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/26_bar_3.htm (3037 words)

	Film History Before 1920
		In 1912, Zukor proved that there was an audience for a four-reel, 'feature-length' French film Queen Elizabeth (1912), starring famous French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt.
		When Zukor merged his studio with Jesse Lasky - the combined company was renamed Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and it migrated to Hollywood, where it opened a studio in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard.
		Zukor forced theatre owners to accept "block booking" (the rental of groups or blocks of films) in order to assure that all of the studio's films would be distributed.
	www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro4.html (2573 words)

	The Famous Players-Lasky Antitrust Case
		The three respondents —Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Adolph Zukor, and Jesse L. Lasky— were given 60 days to comply with the findings or to provide the FTC with written explanations.
		Adolph Zukor makes the cover of Time magazine as the U.S. government tried unsuccessfully to curb his power.
		The case also intended to challenge the validity of compulsory arbitration by prosecuting the 32 territorial arbitration boards for conspiracy in violation of antitrust law.
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/ftc-case_into.htm (1138 words)

	Mazornet Jewish Book Club - Empire of Their Own (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their fathers, (with the exception of Zukor, fatherless from a young age) were luftmenshen; men who could not hold on to a job, and often short of funds.
		It was then that Zukor convinced his partner, Morris Kohn, to invest in an arcade on Fourteenth Street in New York.
		Marcus Loew, a friend and a co-investor in Zukor's Automatic Vaudeville, was born on May 7 of 1870, on the Lower East Side of New York - to a poor Viennese waiter and German widow with two sons from a previous marriage.
	www.mazornet.com /jewishcl/bookclub/empire.asp (1376 words)

	PARAMOUNT A VIACOM COMPANY
		It was this system which gave Paramount a leading position in the 1920s and 1930s, but which led the government to pursue it on anti-trust grounds for more than twenty years.
		Zukor also hired independent producer B.P. Schulberg, an un-erring eye for new talent, to run the west-coast studio.
		Zukor's over-expansion and use of over-valued Paramount stock for purchases led the company into receivership in 1933.
	www.solarnavigator.net /films_movies_actors/paramount.htm (2377 words)

	Adolph Zukor Quotes
		1 Quotes for 'Adolph Zukor' in the Database.
		If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.
		All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
	www.worldofquotes.com /author/Adolph-Zukor/1 (56 words)

	Musical Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(The Hollywood Whirl) Roscoe is signing a 3 million dollar contract with Adolph Zukor, and to celebrate, he's planning to throw a party Labor Day weekend, at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
		Seeing Virginia Rappe on the lot, he asks Zukor to give her his number so he can invite her.
		With the trial nearing it's conclusion, Roscoe takes advantage of the Thanksgiving recess to throw a dinner party, and Zukor is his guest of honor.
	sethevans.net /roscoe/music.htm (521 words)

	Paramount Cartoon Bumpers
		Below this in a slightly smaller font we see the words "ADOLPH ZUKOR PRESIDENT".
		Below Zukor's name, we see the words "NEW YORK CITY".
		(Note: From 1935-39, the text "Adolph Zukor Presents A Max Fleischer Cartoon" was seen instead of the Fleischer text.
	members.fortunecity.com /teamfx2000/Kids_Cartoons/paratoons.htm (1656 words)

	American Experience \| Mary Pickford \| Further Reading \| PBS
		The history of a theatre chain in existence since 1920.
		Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents a biography of Adolph Zukor.
		Filmsite.org is an extensive database including the history of film, stars from all eras, and information about hundreds of films.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/pickford/filmmore/fr.html (297 words)

	Y200 Politics and Film
		Adolph Zukor Tries to Rein In the Stars
		•Zukor formed First National in 1917 (later to become Paramount Pictures). ;
		•The Federal Trade Commission rules against Zukor’s attempt to merge with Famous Players in 1927 but Zukor buys the theater chain as planned.
	www.indiana.edu /~polfilm/lecturfa04/polf03_files/slide0007.htm (72 words)

	USATODAY.com - Excerpt from 'Cary Grant' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was a film Grant desperately wanted to be in, believing it would be the one to finally make him a major star.
		When Adolph Zukor, the head of Paramount, refused to allow the loan-out, MGM gave the role instead to its own relatively unknown contract player, Franchot Tone.
		Bounty went on to win the Best Picture Oscar for 1935, and its three stars-Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Tone-were all nominated for Best Actor.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/excerpts/2004-09-08-cary-grant_x.htm (538 words)

	Image Entertainment / Feature Film / Old Wives for New / The Whispering Chorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The film even suggests divorce as a possible solution to "irreconcilable differences" in marriage.
		This film so shocked Paramount's head, Adolph Zukor, that he was opposed to releasing it at all (but relented when a test screening proved it would make money).
		In fact, it created a sensation and led directly to the social comedies director Cecil B. DeMille made in the early 1920s.
	www.image-entertainment.com /detail.cfm?productID=13479 (269 words)

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