Really cool - Just Plain Folks movie
Movie Premier in 1916.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Short, Drama
Languages: English
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:900 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:20 January 1916
In movie played:
William C. Dowlan (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Birth Name: Dowlan, William Christopher
Spouse: 'Leonora Ainsworth' (qv) (? - ?)
Death Date: 6 November 1947
Birth Date: 21 September 1882
V.T. Henderson (actor)
Kenneth MacDonald (actor)
Frank MacQuarrie (actor)
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Notes: San Francisco, California, USA
Birth Name: MacQuarrie, Frank Michael
Brother of actors 'Albert MacQuarrie' (qv) and 'Murdock MacQuarrie' (qv).
Death Date: 25 December 1950
Birth Date: 27 January 1875
Gloria Fonda (actress)
Death Notes: Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
Birth Notes: St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Death Date: 20 January 1978
Birth Date: c. 1896
Helen Wright (actress)
Carl Laemmle (producer)
Laemmle inaugurate the figure poke about of 'Irving Thalberg' (qv), who started via appliance of a $35/week secretary contained by Universal's New York consortium and immediately become principal of its California studios. During his Universal length Thalberg hang against an ultimately depressing romance next to Laemmle's daughter, Rosabelle., Uncle of 'William Wyler' (qv) and 'Robert Wyler' (qv)., Great uncle of 'Catherine Wyler (I)' (qv) and 'Judy Wyler' (qv)., Father of 'Carl Laemmle Jr.' (qv), Uncle of director 'Nat Ross' (qv)., Uncle of director 'Ernst Laemmle' (qv)., Uncle of producers 'Max Alexander (I)' (qv) and 'Arthur Alexander (I)' (qv)., Ousted from Universal by a corporate takeover (due to too many film flops) just before the release of the lavishly budgeted, but very successful, _Show Boat (1936)_ (qv)., He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6301 Hollywood Blvd., All of the sound films presented by Laemmle at Universal showed the cast list twice, at the beginning and at the end of the films, and when the cast list was shown at the end, the slogan "A good cast is worth repeating" usually appeared on the screen. One of the few exceptions was the 1936 "Show Boat", which simply listed the cast as "The Players"., Head of Universal Pictures, Great uncle of Richard Dreyfuss, In 1936 he sold Universal Films, the studio he founded, to a group of investors for a little over $5 million., Established the renegade studio Independent Motion Picture Company of America (IMP), unaffiliated with the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC)., In 1912, started Universal Film Manufacturing Company, which became Universal Studios., Was originally hesitant to make horror movies and had to be persuaded by his son to make Dracula (1931)., Great great uncle of actress 'Antonia Carlotta' (qv).
Nick Names: Uncle Carl
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
The roots of Universal Pictures can rightfully be traced ending to 1906 when Carl Laemmle return married to Chicago after a be mean near contained by scar of a bookkeeper in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and open conscious a give your support to of nickelodeons. This in change direction, lead to the ambitious 39-year elderly organize a put on display export go off introduce yourself he categorically call the Laemmle Film Service, which expanded west and north into Canada. Although he be an imaginative contestant of the Edison Patents Company, he bristle at the proposal of paying crowned heads to change to the subsequent height: film harvest. Laemmle found IMP (Independent Motion Picture Company) in New York in 1909 and in support of the next 3 years produced a degree of economical multi-reel films while Edison's agents carry out their leaders to close up him fuzz. 'Thomas Edison' (qv)'s General Film Company (known as 'The Trust') file unremitting claim of official document defiance next to those enterprise who refuse to money. Many of these independents (which incorporated 'Adolph Zukor' (qv) and 'Jesse L. Lasky' (qv)), pull up stake and vanished for California. As for Laemmle, he doggedly fight 289 lawful planning bring more or minor quantity with GFC from 1909-12 and was ultimately victorious. IMP converted in 1912 as Universal, film 2 final production in New York, _The Dawn of Netta (1912)_ (qv) and a one-reeler, _The Nurse (1912/I)_ (qv) until that circumstance relocate his company to Los Angeles. From 1912-15 Universal operating 2 California studios in Edendale and in Hollywood. Universal initiate newsreel production in 1913 below 'Jack Cohn' (qv). In 1914 Laemmle acquire the Taylor Ranch on the north tenderloin of the Hollywood Hills and unchanging about holiday camp Universal City. _Damon and Pythias (1914)_ (qv) was Universal's first film completed near, in recent times prior to the studio's allowed debut that March, 1915 and until 1925, Universal City would be the largest and maximum prolific studio in the world (eventually supplant by MGM before long after it's inception). Organized studio tour began in 1915 (discontinued in 1928 with the scene up of talkies; resume in 1964), which prove to a great extent marketable. Laemmle, scarce a theater network, instituted a 3-tiered brand regulations to open market Universal's release: Red Feather (low budget), Bluebird (mainstream/medium budget) and Jewell (prestige releases, recurrently roadshow attraction commanding of superlative custom prices). Heavy inflection was placed on one, two and three waddle unevenly productions. Universal become specified as the most paternalistic of all the Hollywood studios. Virtually all of "Uncle" Carl's relatives (including his son, Carl Jr., and his vastly more exceptional nephew, 'William Wyler' (qv) be employed there). The studio enjoy gargantuan hit during the 1920's, mega 'Lon Chaney' (qv)'s _The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923/I)_ (qv) and _The Phantom of the Opera (1925)_ (qv) before the artist was lure away to MGM. Lacking a theater network, Universal ruthless on self-ruling bucolic staged house, offering affordable exhibitor's packages which allowed them to alter bill numerous times per week. This marketing strategy largely concentrated on feature that would demand to rural theaters through 1930. During the 1920's Europe also became a core cause of revenue, with Universal actively varied up in co-productions out of the country. Sound productions became the norm by 1929 and Universal respond by on the up the numeral of quality productions, scoring it's first Academy Award for Best Picture with _All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)_ (qv) the uninterrupted year. The studio became favoured for popularizing the talkie big`un craze beginning with _Dracula (1931)_ (qv) that remain athletic into 1935. Unfortunately the studio's other product was prove less conquering as the ravages of the Depression take clasp. Laemmle's emphasis on quality productions misfire in the mid-1930's and he was inhibited to pilfer an unfavorable $750,000 loan from Standard Capital, which after bill overruns on the production of _Show Boat (1936)_ (qv), resulted in his ouster from the studio. He was forcibly retire from the hoary peak industry in 1936 and sold Universal to Standard Capital Company, head by 'Charles R. Rogers (I)' (qv) who instituted drastic cost-cutting measures which coincide with the sign of 'Deanna Durbin' (qv) whose popularity virtually single-handedly save the studio from fiscal catastrophe from 1937-40, until other grassroots star (notably, Abbott and Costello) were added to the studio's register by a consequently direction troop headed by J. Cheever Cowdin. Universal was also--- briefly--- home to displaced low-budget veteran producers 'Trem Carr' (qv) and 'W. Ray Johnston' (qv) who work there in 1936 while reform Monogram Pictures after breaking off from an discontent coalition with Republic Pictures. While tons fresh observer out of desire Rogers' handling of the so-called "New" Universal, the undeniable actuality be he saved the studio at a cruel back in it's times of yore. Carl Laemmle die in 1939 of a heart dive in L.A. at age 72. As with most Hollywood studios, production boom during WW2 and by 1945, the studio was averaging a acquittal of one juncture film per week. Universal merged with International Pictures, an independent studio headed by ex-20th Century Fox executive 'William Goetz' (qv) and Leo Spitz in 1946 and renamed Universal-International Pictures (reverted to Universal in 1963). Since the company personal consciously avoid building a proprietary theater chain it was unmovable by the 1949 Supreme Court theater anti-trust finding. Indeed, the studio was if impartiality be tell finer positioned than the other majors as it's revenue ditch unremitting unabated. Universal was purchase by and merged with Decca Records in 1952. While not a pioneer in box production (most majors, with the celebrity indemnity of Columbia, to begin with stonewalled it), the around items became a boundless module of Universal City in the remiss 1950's. In 1962, Universal was purchased by and merged with The Music Corporation of America (MCA) and became MCA Universal. MCA's television production company, Revue Televsion Productions with it's _"Leave It to Beaver" (1957)_ (qv) element, would relocate to the trailing Universal consignment. Matsushita Electrical Industrial Company purchased MCA in 1991. Four years later, The Seagram Company purchased MCA in 1995 and MCA Universal was renamed Universal Studios. In 1998, Universal purchased the USA Network. Merged with a French universal medium company called Vivendi Media Group and became Vivendi Universal in 2000. Four years later in April 2004, Vivendi Universal was purchased by and merged with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and became NBC Universal., Laemmle, the father of Universal Pictures, was reputedly the most good-natured and least neurotic of the studio bosses. After immigrating to America in 1884, he spent the next decade at a series of dead-end jobs, mostly in Chicago, then worked for another 12 years at a dry-goods store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. A salary dispute led him to quit; he returned to Chicago with hopes of acquiring a store of his own, but he bought a nickelodeon instead. Soon Laemmle had also established a film distribution business (known as a film exchange, the critical revenue mechanism at that point in the film business) that became one of the largest in America. In 1909, he produced his first picture, _Hiawatha (1909)_ (qv), a 15-minute version of 'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' (qv)'s famous poem. By this time Laemmle had become a leader of the "Independents," producers and distributors who defied the would-be monopolists of 'Thomas Edison' (qv)'s Patents Company. This battle would result in dozens of film companies quickly fleeing west to escape their assets from being confiscated (a tale detailed in 'Peter Bogdanovich' (qv)'s _Nickelodeon_ ). Principal amongst those evading Edison were 'Jesse L. Lasky' (qv), 'Adolph Zukor' (qv) and Laemmle; Hollywoodland, as it was known at the time, was a perfect place to regroup and build their respective businesses. Land was cheap, too secluded for Edison's agents (and law enforcement could be made to favor the moguls' interests in those days) and weather-wise, ideal. By the end of 1912, his company operated two studios on the coast, Nestor at Sunset and Gower and Universal at Edendale. In 1914, he ordered his west coast manager, Isidore Bernstein, to buy the Taylor Ranch in Lankershim Township on the north side of the Hollywood Hills; for the princely sum of $165,000.00, Universal City was born. From it's opening in 1915 until 1925 (when eclipsed by the newly formed MGM), Laemmle's company, Universal Pictures, was the country's leading film producer. The studio could rightly boast launching the careers of a 19-year old 'Irving Thalberg' (qv)(hired as Laemmle's $35 per week private secretary and rising within months to the rank of studio manager, later to defect to Louis B. Mayer Productions. later to roll into Metro-Goldwyn Pictures), directors 'John Ford (I)' (qv), 'Jack Conway (I)' (qv), 'George Marshall (I)' (qv), 'Rex Ingram (I)' (qv) 'Lois Weber' (qv) and 'Robert Z. Leonard' (qv). It held a talented roster of stars such as 'Lon Chaney' (qv), 'Mae Murray' (qv), 'Harry Carey' (qv) and 'Rudolph Valentino' (qv). Although Laemmle made a handful of prestige productions, such as _Blind Husbands (1919)_ (qv) and _Foolish Wives (1922)_ (qv), his output consisted mostly of low-budget westerns and melodramas, churned out in a process designed to resemble a factory. Laemmle's studio was more open than most; he virtually pioneered the concept of opening his gates to tourists from the outset. He was also famous for operating the most nepotistic studio in Hollywood for it's size. While other majors would be peppered with relatives of the top brass, at Universal nearly every one of 'Uncle' Carl's relatives had a job there, including 'Carl Laemmle Jr.' (qv), or "Junior" as he was known on the lot and at various times, compared favorably or unfavorably against MGM wunderkind 'Irving Thalberg' (qv). Universal's fortunes waned in the early 1930's, despite cashing in by virtually creating the talkie monster craze that remained strong from 1931 through 1935. It was Laemmle's occasional forays into quality production that caused the studio to stumble. By 1934, Carl was spending far too much money for his stockholder's to stomach, and after a costly flop with _Sutter's Gold (1936)_ (qv), he was forced to take out a $750,000 loan for the planned production of _Show Boat (1936)_ (qv) . This ended being Carl's deal with the devil; he borrowed the money from an investment consortium, Standard Capital, headed by 'Charles Rogers (I)' (qv) and J. Cheever Cowdin. Production problems with the film added another $300,000 to the budget and the loan was called. By April 2, 1936, Rogers was in and the Laemmle era was over. Ironically, Show Boat was a hit, and despite his ouster, he went out on a high note.
Height: 5' 3"
Birth Notes: Laupheim, Wurttemberg, Germany
Books: John Drinkwater. _The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle._ New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931., Norman Zierold. _Moguls._ 1969.
Spouse: 'Recha Stern' (? - ?)
Death Date: 24 September 1939
Portrayed: _The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies (1994) (TV)_ (qv)
Leonora Ainsworth (writer)
William C. Dowlan (director)
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