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Adolph Zukor (/ ˈzuːkər /; Hungarian: Czukor Adolf; January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) [ 1 ] was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. [ 2 ] He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913. [ 3 ][ 4 ]
In 1916 Zukor merged Famous Players with Jesse L. Lasky’s Feature Play Company; Zukor became president and, in 1917, head of Paramount, which was Famous Players–Lasky’s distribution company. In 1935 he became chairman of the board of Paramount Pictures, a figurehead position but one he retained (emeritus) until his death at the age of 103.
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Feb 29, 2024 · Amazingly, in 1975, the year Evans left Paramount to go into independent production, Zukor, “the old man” (he had been called that since the 1930s), was still in harness as board chairman ...
Sep 3, 2012 · 100 Years of Paramount Pictures. One of the most important forces in the history of American cinema was born in 1912, when Adolph Zukor (1873 – 1976) formed a production and distribution company called Famous Players. Already a wealthy entrepreneur when he entered show business around the turn of the century, the Hungarian-born Zukor began ...
ADOLPH ZUKOR. As Paramount's founding president, Zukor built the company into a major Hollywood studio through bold gambles like block booking and integrating production, distribution, and exhibition, though these brought Paramount under antitrust scrutiny. While extremely successful throughout the silent era, Zukor failed to effectively manage ...
As the film historian Robert Sklar stated in his landmark 1975 study Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of America Movies: “The studio system was the house that Adolph Zukor built.”. Under the management of B.P. Schulberg, head of production from 1925 to 1932, Paramount thrived with an eclectic and diversified product line.
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His movie company, Famous Players, later became Paramount Pictures Corp., and Adolph Zukor became one of Hollywood’s first tycoons. For the past 15 years, as chairman of the board, he has been ...
