In 1925, when American Telephone & Telegraph Co. gave a private showing of sound-pictures of people singing, an orchestra playing, a drummer drumming, officials of the company waited anxiously for the ...

Adolph Zukor is made the target of a vehement attack by Theodor Fritsch, editor of “Der Hammer,” in the last issue of the paper. “Adolph Zukor is a European Jew who, twenty years ago, sneaked into the ...

To have asked a banker 20 years ago for the financing of a cinema concern would have been of no avail. He had probably never heard of motion pictures. Or, if he had, he held them in contempt as ...

In the flickery days of the nickelodeon, a little (5 ft. 5 in.) Hungarian immigrant named Adolph Zukor decided that the way to lure customers into his second-floor emporium in Manhattan was to give ...

An ovation that rivalled the most extravagant concepts of a motion picture version, was accorded to Adolph Zukor, head of the Paramount Film Co., on his return to his native village, Riccse, yesterday ...

IN 1881, swashbuckling Hungarian Adolph Zukor (Tom Cruise) is bound for New York City in search of spices for his native land. He takes a wrong turn at Staten Island and, two years later, arrives off ...

A special installment of “Daily Variety” podcast takes a deep look at the storied history of Paramount Pictures as David Ellison’s Skydance Media formally takes control of the studio after a long slog ...

In the lead-up to Vogue World landing on the Paramount Pictures Studio Lot, here’s a primer on all the glamorous lore ...