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Robert L. Lippert (1909–1976) was a successful exhibitor, owning a chain of movie theaters in California and Oregon. He was frustrated that the Hollywood studios concentrated on making big, expensive pictures that commanded premium rental fees. He felt there was a market for smaller, cheaper feature films intended for neighborhood theaters in ...
A list of films produced or released by the American distributor Lippert Pictures. Founded by Robert Lippert in 1945, the company's initial releases were often known as "Screen Guild Productions". Later it enjoyed success by co-producing and releasing films by the British studio Exclusive Films .
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Born in Alameda, California and adopted by the owner of a hardware store, Robert Lippert became fascinated by the cinema at an early age. As a youngster, he worked a variety of jobs in local theaters, including projectionist and assistant manager. As a manager of a cinema during the Depression, Lippert encouraged regular attendance with promotions ...
"Every theater owner thinks he can make pictures better than the ones they sent him," Lippert later said. "So back in 1943, I tried it". Dissatisfied with what he believed to be exorbitant rental fees charged by major studios, Lippert formed Screen Guild Productions in 1945, its first release being a Bob Steele western called Wildfire, filmed in th...
Screen Guild became Lippert Pictures in 1948, using rental stages and the Corriganville Movie Ranchfor the production of its films. 130 Lippert features were made and released between 1948 and 1955. Lippert's fortunes and reputation improved when he sponsored screenwriter and former newspaper reporter Samuel Fuller. Fuller wanted to become a direct...
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When Darryl F. Zanuck announced his CinemaScope process, he faced hostility from many theater owners who had gone to great expense to convert their theaters to show 3-D films that Hollywood had stopped making. Zanuck assured them that they could have a large supply of CinemaScope product because Fox would make CinemaScope lenses available to other film companies and start a production unit, led by Lippert, called Regal Pictures in 1956 to produce B picturesin that process. Lippert's company w...
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In 1959, Lippert renamed Regal as Associated Producers Incorporated (API) to make more low-budget films for double features (API having similar initials to exploitation specialist American International Picturesmay have been coincidental). The core of API was Harry Spalding and Maury Dexter. All API's productions were done in-house. In October 1959, Lippert said making "little Bs" for $100,000 was no longer as lucrative because "it is now in the same category as the short TV feature which peo...
Later career
In March 1966, Fox announced that Lippert would return to film production with Country Music. Lippert's association with Fox ended after 250 films with The Last Shot You Hearthat began filming in 1967 but was not released until 1969. After stopping producing, Lippert doubled his chain of theaters from 70 to 139 and managed them until his death.
In 1926, he married Ruth Robinson and they remained married until his death. He has a son, Robert L. Lippert Jr., and a daughter, Judith Ann. His son followed his father into producing and also helping manage the theater chain. Maury Dexter says Lippert had a mistress, Margia Dean, who he would insist appear in Lippert films.
Lippert died of a heart attack, his second, at home in Alameda, California on November 16, 1976. His cremated remains were interred at the Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Colma, California.
Produced by Action Pictures, distributed by Screen Guild Productions
1. Wildfire: The Story of a Horse(1945) – starring Bob Steele, produced by William David, directed by Robert Emmett Tansey 2. Northwest Trail(1945) – starring Bob Steele, produced by William David, directed by Derwin Abrahams 3. God's Country(1946) – starring Bob Steele, produced by William David, directed by Robert Emmett Tansey
Produced by Affiliated Productions, distributed by Screen Guild Productions
1. Renegade Girl (1946) – starring Ann Savage, directed by William Berke 2. Rolling Home (1946) – starring Jean Parker, directed by William Berke
Produced by Edward F. Finney Productions, distributed by Screen Guild Productions
1. Queen of the Amazons (1947) – written by Roger Merton, directed by Edward Finney 2. The Prairie (1947) – Based on a story by James Fenimore Cooper, written by Arthur St. Claire (screenplay) directed by Frank Wisbar
Robert L. Lippert at IMDbLippert Pictures was an American film production and distribution company controlled by Robert L. Lippert. [1] Robert L. Lippert (1909–1976) was a successful exhibitor, owning a chain of movie theaters in California and Oregon.
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In 1949 Robert L. Lippert reorganized Screen Guild Productions and became President of Lippert Pictures. The company released a wide variety of films through...
