United Artists

Mary ~ Katie Melua

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Mary Pickford ~ Katie Melua, One of the founders of United Artists. Mary Pickford ~ Katie Melua vloggerheads.com

Published Thu, Sep 10

The Formosa Cafe!

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building that housed, at one time, the production offices for United Artists (that's right, Mary Pickford, Doug Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin ... video.tiscali.it

Published Sat, Aug 29

The mother of Hollywood

source: Culpeper Star Exponent

 VA In 1919, Pickford co-founded United Artists with Chaplin, Biograph's DW Griffith and actor, producer, director and writer Douglas Fairbanks. She was involved in every aspect of motion pictures, said Schmidt, from wardrobe to art direction and ...

Published Thu, May 28

Propaganda infiltrated movies as United States entered WWI

source: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

 TN After 1919, her films were released by United Artists, a company she founded with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks. I do feel some connection to the era of Pickford and "The Little American. ...

Published Sun, May 17

Tom Cruise

source: AMCtv.com

 NY 1993) officially "took over" the defunct United Artists studio. Originally founded by such giants as Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin in 1921, UA was run into extinction after the Heaven's Gate fiasco in the early '80s and its purchase by ...

Published Fri, May 15

"Sunnyside:" a fictional homage to Charlie Chaplin

source: Seattle Times

 United States Meanwhile, back in Hollywood, Chaplin was working on another film, "Sunnyside" — and trying to salvage his artistic freedom by forming United Artists with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and DW Griffith. He was also undermining his first marriage by ...

Published Fri, May 15

Silent Film Benefit Set for May 16

source: The Log Newspaper

 CA Organist Robert Salisbury will play live musical accompaniment on the Casino's rare Page theater organ — and movie historians will give their insights on the late actor Douglas Fairbanks, who was one of the founders of United Artists (along with ...

Published Thu, May 14

Star attraction

source: San Diego Union Tribune

 CA She and husband Douglas Fairbanks owned a beach cottage in Oceanside and bought 800 acres near Rancho Santa Fe that is now known as the community of Fairbanks Ranch. There is renewed interest in Pickford, who co-founded United Artists, ...

Published Sat, May 9