United Artists
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
Founded in 1919, United Artists was one of the "Little Three" studios of Hollywood's Golden Age, along with Universal and Columbia. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased it in 1981 after the company collapsed due to the massive failure of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate.
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and director D.W. Griffith founded the studio in 1919 as a way for them to control their own interests without being dependent on a studio. Their first release was His Majesty, the American, written by and starring Fairbanks. Despite the goal of independence, the company struggled in its first several years, only distributing five films a year in its first five years. Their first Oscar winner was Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1941.
Not to be confused with Detroit's United Artists Theater.
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