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 I was impressed by the moral potentialities of the screen. Fish stinks from the head.
If I`d known I was going to live this long, I`d have taken better care of myself.
[on William S. Hart] He was the actor I loved the most. Although the scenarios of the first westerns were less complicated than those of today, he had a fastidiousness and a professional conscience without parallel to see that each line of the script was minutely respected. He was a gentleman of the kind not found today.
[on Rudolph Valentino] His acting is largely confined to protruding his large, almost occult eyes until the vast areas of white are visible, drawing back the lips of his wide, sensuous mouth to bare his gleaming teeth, and flaring his nostrils.
[on Clara Bow] She danced even when her feet were not moving.
The public is never wrong.
[After first reading the script of Broken Blossoms (1936)] You bring me a picture like this and want money for it? You may as well put your hand in my pocket and steal it. It isn`t commercial. Everyone in it dies.
Those of us who became film producers hailed from all sorts of occupations - furriers, magicians, butchers, boilermakers - and for this reason highbrows have often poked fun at us. Yet one thing is certain: every man who succeeded was a born showman. And once in show business he was never happy out of it.
Trivia
He was credited as presenter to Paramount cartoons from 1935 to 1939. These cartoons were acquired by television distributors U.M.&M., National Telefilm Associates, and Associated Artists Productions, in 1955. The TV distributors were instructed to remove all evidence of Paramount`s involvement in the cartoons. The "Adolph Zukor Presents" byline was kept on, but the "Paramount Presents" bylines were blacked out. The TV distributors apparently did not think that anyone would recognize Zukor as Paramount`s chairman.
Paramount Pictures Corporation merged with Viacom International, Inc. Together, the merged companies own the United Paramount Network (UPN), the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and all its subsidiaries, the TVLand network, the Comedy Central network, the Black Entertainment Television (BET)network, Blockbuster Inc., The Spelling Entertainment Corporation and its subsidiaries, owned by Aaron Spelling, Showtime Networks Inc., the Country Music Television (CMT) network, the Spike TV network, the Video Hits 1 (VH1) network, Music Television (MTV) Networks, the Nickelodeon network, and Nick at Nite. Viacom split into two companies, the new Viacom Inc. and CBS Corporation on December 31, 2005. CBS Corporation re-branded Paramount`s television distributing division as CBS Paramount Television, comprised of three divisions: CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Paramount International Television.
Paramount-Publix went bankrupt in 1933, and was reorganized as Paramount Pictures, Inc. He was forced out as part of the reorganization, but after Barney Balaban became Paramount president in 1936, he appointed Zukor chairman of the board. In return, Zukor always called Balaban "the boy." They served together 28 years, until Balaban was forced out of Paramount in 1964 after the failure of the big-budgeted The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).
Founder of the Famous Players Film Company.
Paramount Pictures sold the candles on movie producer Adolph Zukor`s one hundredth birthday cake for $1,000 dollars each, and then donated the proceeds to charity.
Chairman emeritus of Paramount Pictures, until his death at age 103.
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