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11 hours ago · Universal was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane [a] and Jules Brulatour. One story has Laemmle watching a box office for hours, counting patrons, and calculating the day's takings.
Jun 21, 2024 · Universal’s Carl Laemmle is cited for “nepotism” because he famously handed out so many studio jobs to relatives he earned the industry-wide nickname “Uncle Carl.”
Jun 29, 2024 · In the panel devoted to Universal Studios, Carl Laemmle is noted as rising from errand boy to running the studio, “where his kindness and nepotism earned him the moniker Uncle CarI.”
5 days ago · Trust company producers used this kind of publicity after 1910, when Carl Laemmle of Independent Motion Pictures (IMP) promoted Florence Lawrence into national stardom through a series of media stunts in St. Louis, Missouri, but they never exploited the technique as forcefully or as imaginatively as the independents did.
Jul 1, 2024 · From Adolph Zukor to Carl Laemmle to Louis B. Mayer (an Academy founder) to the Warner brothers to Harry Cohn, Eastern European immigrants came to America, mostly with nothing, and built a...
Jun 17, 2024 · There, he landed a job as a personal assistant to Carl Laemmle, who ran the studio as a small, family-oriented operation. Carl realized some of his relatives weren’t exactly cut out for the movie business, so he asked the 21-year-old Thalberg for help in managing some of the various film projects that threatened to run out of control.
Jun 13, 2024 · Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein (left) and Boris Karloff as the monster in Frankenstein (1931), directed by James Whale. (more) The film spawned a cottage industry of sequels, including Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939), as well as multiple remakes.
