The Love Parade. Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Canary Murder Case. The Cocoanuts. Glorifying the American Girl. The Vagabond King. Follow Thru. Tom Sawyer. Paramount on Parade.
Playboy of Paris. Feet First. Animal Crackers. The Big Pond. Tarnished Lady. Monkey Business. Based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson. MGM purchased the rights to the film in conjunction with their remake in that version starred Spencer Tracy.
Now owned by Turner Entertainment , distributed through Warner Bros. Million Dollar Legs. One Hour with You. The Sign of the Cross. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. In , Warner Bros. Selznick , who produced his version. Trouble in Paradise. Shanghai Express.
Love Me Tonight. Horse Feathers. Alice in Wonderland. She Done Him Wrong. Duck Soup. I'm No Angel. This Day and Age. Now and Forever. It's a Gift. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Go West, Young Man. The General Died at Dawn. Easy Living. The Big Broadcast of The Buccaneer. Union Pacific. Beau Geste. Emergency Squad. Parole Fixer. Adventure in Diamonds. Women Without Names. The Light of Western Stars. French Without Tears.
Opened by Mistake. Buck Benny Rides Again. The Ghost Breakers. Queen of the Mob. Golden Gloves. Mystery Sea Raider. Rhythm on the River. I Want a Divorce. Rangers of Fortune. Arise, My Love. Christmas in July. North West Mounted Police. Dancing on a Dime. Second Chorus. Love Thy Neighbor. Doomed Caravan. The Mad Doctor. The Monster and the Girl. The Lady Eve. I Wanted Wings. The second of the Road films. Power Dive. One Night in Lisbon.
Caught in the Draft. Forced Landing. The Shepherd of the Hills. Kiss the Boys Goodbye. World Premiere. Aloma of the South Seas. Flying Blind. Hold Back the Dawn. Nothing But the Truth. New York Town. Birth of the Blues. Night of January 16th. Bug Goes to Town. Bahama Passage. Among the Living. Louisiana Purchase. Pacific Blackout.
The Fleet's In. Sullivan's Travels. The Remarkable Andrew. My Favorite Blonde. The Great Man's Lady. Take a Letter, Darling. Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die. I Live on Danger. Sweater Girl. Holiday Inn. The Holiday Inn hotel chain was named after this film. Wake Island. The Major and the Minor. Street of Chance. The Forest Rangers. The Glass Key. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. The Palm Beach Story. Wrecking Crew. The third of the Road films. Lucky Jordan. The Day Will Dawn. Star Spangled Rhythm.
No Time for Love. Aerial Gunner. Five Graves to Cairo. Night Plane from Chungking. Alaska Highway. Submarine Alert. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Let's Face It! So Proudly We Hail! Riding High. True to Life. Timber Queen. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Lady in the Dark. The Uninvited. The Navy Way. And the Angels Sing. The Hitler Gang. Gambler's Choice. Going My Way. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Story of Dr. Hail the Conquering Hero. Double Indemnity. The Great Moment.
Frenchman's Creek. Dark Mountain. Ministry of Fear. And Now Tomorrow. One Body Too Many. Dangerous Passage.
Double Exposure. Here Come the Waves. Practically Yours. The Affairs of Susan. The Lost Weekend. The Stork Club. The fourth Road film , filmed and produced in To Each His Own. The Blue Dahlia. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. My Favorite Brunette. The Perils of Pauline. The fifth Road film. I Walk Alone. The Big Clock. Hatter's Castle. A Foreign Affair. The Emperor Waltz.
Sorry, Wrong Number. The Paleface. My Friend Irma. The Heiress. Samson and Delilah. The File on Thelma Jordon. No Man of Her Own. Captain Carey, U. The Lawless. My Friend Irma Goes West. Fancy Pants. Sunset Boulevard. Starring Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards , including Best Picture. The Furies. Union Station. Dark City. September Affair. Copper Canyon.
Let's Dance. The Goldbergs. The Mating Season. At War with the Army. The Redhead and the Cowboy. The Lemon Drop Kid. Appointment with Danger. Dear Brat. That's My Boy. Ace in the Hole. Peking Express. Darling, How Could You! A Place in the Sun. When Worlds Collide! Here Comes the Groom. Detective Story. Silver City. My Favorite Spy.
Submarine Command. The Greatest Show on Earth. Sailor Beware. Something to Live For. Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick. Anything Can Happen. The Atomic City. Denver and Rio Grande. Jumping Jacks. Son of Paleface. The Savage. Caribbean Gold. Hurricane Smith. Just for You. The Turning Point. The sixth of the Road films , and the last to be distributed by Paramount. Come Back, Little Sheba. The Stooge. Thunder in the East.
Off Limits. The Girls of Pleasure Island. Scared Stiff. Pony Express. Kirby Loopsy's Imposters. Stalag The Caddy. The War of the Worlds. Roman Holiday. Little Boy Lost. Botany Bay. Here Come the Girls. Cease Fire. Forever Female. Money from Home. Alaska Seas. The Naked Jungle. Red Garters. Casanova's Big Night. Knock on Wood. Elephant Walk. Secret of the Incas.
Living It Up. About Mrs. White Christmas. Paramount's first film released in " VistaVision ," the studio's wide-screen film format. The Bridges at Toko-Ri. Doctor in the House. Strategic Air Command.
Conquest of Space. Run for Cover. Hell's Island. The Country Girl. Welcome to jackass! Robert Downey Jr. Watch Now. The Lasky company hired as their first employee a stage director with virtually no film experience, Cecil B. Beginning in , both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.
Hodkinson and actor, director, producer Hobart Bosworth had started production of a series of Jack London movies.
Paramount was the first successful nation-wide distributor; until this time, films were sold on a state-wide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers. Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation.
Zukor and Lasky bought Hodkinson out of Paramount, and merged the three companies into one. The new company Lasky and Zukor founded, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, grew quickly, with Lasky and his partners Goldwyn and DeMille running the production side, Hiram Abrams in charge of distribution, and Zukor making great plans.
With only the exhibitor-owned First National as a rival, Famous Players-Lasky and its "Paramount Pictures" soon dominated the business. With so many important players, Paramount was able to introduce "block booking", which meant that an exhibitor who wanted a particular star's films had to buy a year's worth of other Paramount productions.
It was this system that gave Paramount a leading position in the s and s, but which led the government to pursue it on antitrust grounds for more than twenty years. The driving force behind Paramount's rise was Zukor.
Balaban who would eventually supervise all stage production nationwide and produce talkie shorts , and their partner Sam Katz who would run the Paramount-Publix theatre chain in New York City from the thirty-five story Paramount Theatre Building on Times Square.
Zukor also hired independent producer B. Schulberg, an unerring eye for new talent, to run the new West Coast operations. They would then purchase what was originally built as the Robert Brunton Studios. The Fleischers, veterans in the animation industry, would prove to be among the few animation producers capable of challenging the prominence of Walt Disney.
The Paramount newsreel series Paramount News ran from to Whiting and Leo Robin composed the score for the film, Maurice Chevalier starred and sung the most famous song from the film "Louise".
Eventually, Zukor shed most of his early partners; the Frohman brothers, Hodkinson and Goldwyn were out by while Lasky hung on until , when, blamed for the near-collapse of Paramount in the Depression years, he too was tossed out. Zukor's over-expansion and use of overvalued Paramount stock for purchases led the company into receivership in A bank-mandated reorganization team, led by John Hertz and Otto Kahn kept the company intact, and, miraculously, Zukor was kept on.
In , Paramount-Publix went bankrupt. In , Barney Balaban became president, and Zukor was bumped up to chairman of the board. In this role, Zukor reorganized the company as Paramount Pictures, Inc. As always, Paramount films continued to emphasize stars; in the s there were Swanson, Valentino, and Clara Bow. In this period Paramount can truly be described as a movie factory, turning out sixty to seventy pictures a year.
Such were the benefits of having a huge theater chain to fill, and of block booking to persuade other chains to go along. However, the sex appeal West gave in these movies would also lead to the enforcement of the Production Code, as the newly formed organization the Catholic Legion of Decency threatened a boycott if it was not enforced. Paramount cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios continued to be successful, with characters such as Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor becoming widely successful.
One Fleischer series, Screen Songs, featured live-action music stars under contract to Paramount hosting sing-alongs of popular songs. However, a huge blow to Fleischer Studios occurred in , after the Production Code was enforced and Betty Boop's popularity declined as she was forced to have a more tame personality and wear a longer skirt. The animation studio would rebound with Popeye, and in , polls showed that Popeye was even more popular than Mickey Mouse.
After an unsuccessful expansion into feature films, as well as the fact that Max and Dave Fleischer were no longer speaking to one another, Fleischer Studios was acquired by Paramount, which renamed the operation Famous Studios.
That incarnation of the animation studio continued cartoon production until , but has been historically dismissed as having largely failed to maintain the artistic acclaim the Fleischer brothers achieved under their management. In , Paramount agreed to a government-instituted consent decree: block booking and "pre-selling" the practice of collecting up-front money for films not yet in production would end. Immediately Paramount cut back on production, from sixty-plus pictures to a more modest twenty annually in the war years.
Still, with more new stars like Bob Hope, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Paulette Goddard, and Betty Hutton, and with war-time attendance at astronomical numbers, Paramount and the other integrated studio-theatre combines made more money than ever.
At this, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department decided to reopen their case against the five integrated studios. Paramount also had a monopoly over Detroit movie theaters through subsidiary company United Detroit Theaters as well. The newly formed Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, soon consolidated with the distribution company in which Zukor was a major stockholder and all three companies became what you now know as Paramount Pictures.
After the merger, audiences first began seeing the iconic logo with the mountain and stars, which was created by Paramount the distribution company founder W. Hodkinson had borrowed the Paramount name from an apartment house that he frequently passed in his neighborhood.
A mountain peak he remembered from his childhood in Utah inspired the logo, which he designed. Legend has it that the stars surrounding the mountain represented the original 22 film stars Hodkinson had under contract.
Another implication was that Paramount had more stars than there were in the universe. In , Lasky supervised the construction of a new Hollywood studio, which was the foundation of the Paramount Pictures studio lot today. In addition, Wings is the only silent film in movie history to win that award. The 30s through the mids proved to be an immensely successful period for Paramount.
DeMille spectacles and the outrageous comedies of Mae West were all created. From the earliest years and through the s, actors and actresses were more like professional football players of today. They were also traded back and forth for particular productions between studios.
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