Check out the previous part here. A combination of post war legal, technological and social developments converged to undermine the structural foundation of Hollywood’s studio system. The Paramount Decree of 1948 resulted...
Check out the previous part here. 1946 had been a bonanza year for Hollywood with combined profits of the five major, and three minor, movie studios reaching the all-time high of $122 million ($1.6 billion in today’s...
Check out the previous part here. Throughout the 1930s, the individual Hollywood studios with their “homegrown” movie stars developed different visual and dramatic styles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with its roaring lion symbol and...
One afternoon in March 1954, after dubbing part of the soundtrack of his latest movie Betrayed, Clark Gable drove his custom made Jaguar car out of the gates of MGM for the last time. He would never return to the studio that had...
Catch up on part one here. Director Otto Preminger had best described the United Artists set-up when he stated, “Only UA has a system of true independent production. After they agree on the basic property and are consulted on...