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THE PUBLIC IS NEVER WRONG:
My Fifty Years in the Motion Picture Industry
By ADOLPH ZUKOR, with DALE KRAMER
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In the entire history of the films, from the days of the penny arcades and nickelodeons to the 3-D epics of tomorrow, the name of Adolph Zukor stands with the highest, as pioneer, mentor of many famous stars, and head for many years of the great Paramount Studios. In fact, Adolph Zukor's career sums up so well all that is most characteristic and admirable in this peculiarly American field that Variety has tabbed him "Mr. Motion Pictures."
Born in the little Hungarian village of Ricse 80 years ago, young Adolph came to America when he was 15, and with such men as Marcus Loew, Jesse Lasky, and Sam Goldwyn was instrumental in putting the infant industry on a firm business basis. Forty years ago he originated the feature-length movie with his "Famous Players in Famous Plays."
The first of the great theatrical stars who deigned to grace the then despised... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE PUBLIC IS NEVER WRONG:
My Fifty Years in the Motion Picture Industry
By ADOLPH ZUKOR, with DALE KRAMER
:! 1


''ti
In the entire history of the films, from the days of the penny arcades and nickelodeons to the 3-D epics of tomorrow, the name of Adolph Zukor stands with the highest, as pioneer, mentor of many famous stars, and head for many years of the great Paramount Studios. In fact, Adolph Zukor's career sums up so well all that is most characteristic and admirable in this peculiarly American field that Variety has tabbed him "Mr. Motion Pictures."
Born in the little Hungarian village of Ricse 80 years ago, young Adolph came to America when he was 15, and with such men as Marcus Loew, Jesse Lasky, and Sam Goldwyn was instrumental in putting the infant industry on a firm business basis. Forty years ago he originated the feature-length movie with his "Famous Players in Famous Plays."
The first of the great theatrical stars who deigned to grace the then despised screen was Sarah Bernhardt. Her historic
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film Queen Elizabeth was made in France, ^ and Mr. Zukor helped finance it and distributed it in America at a time when the ^ industry still believed that audiences would : ' not sit through more than one or two reels.
Then with the aid of Daniel Frohman , he brought to the screen such stage stars ; as Minnie Maddern Fiske, Lillie Langtry, John Barrymore, James K. Hackett, and ^ many others. He personally thrashed out j with them the exasperating problem of transferring their art to a new medium.
Soon he realized that the public wanted to choose its own movie idols. He launched Mary Pickford as a star and with the sensitive skill of a master impresario guided j her to the heights as America's Sweet- i heart. i
Other celebrated stars whom Adolph i Zukor recalls in his warm and human memoirs include Marguerite Clark, William S. Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, Cecil B. De Mille, Fatty Arbuckle, Pola Negri, dolph Valentino, Norma Talmadge, Glori Swanson, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dean Martin a Jerry Lewis, and scores of others.
Adolph Zukor always stayed in the back^ ground. But he knew intimately the star|i he made — and knew more about then than they might have dreamed. All his;.^ knowledge is here in this outstanding ' autobiography.
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