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14 hours ago · The Covered Wagon. The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J.
Jul 9, 2024 · Paramount Pictures — whose origins trace back to 1912 through the merging efforts of Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players Film Co., Jesse L. Lasky’s Feature Play Co. and distributor Hodkinson ...
2 days ago · From seasoned veterans to rising stars, the cast of Law & Order delivers compelling performances that keep viewers hooked. Here is a look at some of the notable actors and their characters: The most popular cast member today is Jeremy Allen White (Jeremy). Actor online popularity data updated today, July 16, 2024.
2 days ago · DeMille has come up here before - his Something to Think About was 1920’s top-grossing film, a sentimental, prototype epic. I called it a “…an abrasive, teeth-grindingly awful film made by one of the most famous Hollywood conservatives” and found in the movie “rigid bourgeois domestic norms” and a “morbid interest in sexual transgression, broken marriages, illegitimacy…”
Jul 4, 2024 · Seeking a change, in 1913 he joined his friend and collaborator producer Jesse Lasky, businessman (and Lasky’s brother-in-law) Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn), and attorney Arthur Friend in forming the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. DeMille was director-general in the new film company.
2 days ago · In October 1919 LeRoy, just turned 19, approached his cousin Jesse L. Lasky, a former vaudevillian who was twenty years his senior. Lasky was a partner with rising movie moguls Samuel Goldwyn and Adolf Zukor at its New York headquarters at Famous Players–Lasky.
Jul 4, 2024 · These included the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation (later Paramount Pictures, c. 1927), which was formed by a merger of Zukor’s Famous Players Company, Jesse L. Lasky’s Feature Play Company, and the Paramount distribution exchange in 1916; Universal Pictures, founded by Carl Laemmle in 1912 by merging IMP with Powers, Rex, Nestor ...
