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United Artists Corporation ( UA) was an American production and distribution company founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as a venture premised on allowing actors to control their own financial and artistic interests rather than being dependent upon commercial studios.
Nov 13, 2009 · United Artists quickly gained prestige in Hollywood, thanks to the success of the films of its stars, notably Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), as well as the work of actors such as Buster Keaton ...
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Oct 4, 2019 · They called themselves United Artists, but the trades called it a “rebellion against established producing and distributing arrangements.”Paramount Pictures founder Adolph Zukor reportedly ...
United Artists (UA) was an American film and television entertainment studio founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks. This is a list of feature films originally produced or distributed by United Artists, including those made overseas.
Release DateTitleJanuary 18, 1920January 27, 1920April 25, 1920May 16, 1920- “Broken Blossoms” (1919) Several months after Griffith, Chaplin, Pickford, and Fairbanks founded United Artists, the studio released its first movie: “Broken Blossoms.”
- “Pollyanna” (1920) Mary Pickford’s first United Artists release was the 1920 drama “Pollyanna,” in which the acting icon starred as an orphan whose optimistic outlook on life brings change to her antagonistic hometown.
- “The Mark of Zorro” (1920) Douglas Fairbanks cemented his status as cinema’s iconic swashbuckler with the one-two punch of “The Mark of Zorro” and “Robin Hood.”
- “The General” (1927) United Artists is most associated with Charlie Chaplin, but the studio also supported Chaplin’s biggest silent comedy contemporary, Buster Keaton.
Oct 4, 2019 · From the founders to the period between the early ’50s through the late ’60s when Arthur Krim and Bob Benjamin ran the company, to the ’70s when David Picker called the shots, there was a ...
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