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Aug 1, 2023 · Adolph Zukor in July 1939. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Sam Hood. Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian founding father of Hollywood, was born 150 years ago. He laid the foundations of the celebrity system in the American “dream factory”. The Hungarian man who made cinema popular and profitable was born in a small village in Zemplén on 7 January 1873.
Aug 14, 2017 · This article first appeared on August 14, 2017 in The Archbridge Institute’s ‘American Originals’ series. It was 1912. The wiry, soft-spoken, short (five-foot five-inch) immigrant with the thick Hungarian accent waited for hours to see the powerful Jeremiah Kennedy, head of the “Edison Trust” (Motion Picture Patents Company). Adolph Zukor, like many American Originals, had come to […]
Apr 1, 2015 · News Sports Rockland Westchester Food Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals. ... The estate of famed film director Adolph Zukor in New City, for whom the road and park are named. Photo is circa 1925.
Jan 7, 2013 · Adolph Zukor News from United Press International. Adolph Zukor, born Adolph Cukor, (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.
Jan 7, 2015 · Jan 7, 2015. January 7, 1873 is the birthdate of Adolph Zukor, the movie mogul whose vision, more than anyone else’s, provided the business model for the motion picture industry during its first century. Zukor took over a company called Paramount that took care of getting movies into theaters, and only that, and turned it into a corporation ...
Feb 5, 2019 · Most of the entrepreneurs who forged the American film industry — Samuel Goldwyn, Marcus Loew, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor — were East European émigrés.
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