- TitleParamount Pictures Censorship Department records, 1935 - 1959 (inclusive)
- Collector
- Date(s)1935 - 1959 (inclusive)
1935 - 1948 (bulk) - Related names
- Description
0.8 linear ft. of papers
1. Production files; 2. Subject files.
- Summary
The collection includes correspondence, both general in nature and with the Hays Office, related to some ten films released between 1937 and 1947; as well as Production Code Administration correspondence related to reissues from 1935 to 1938. The files appear to be from the office of Luigi Luraschi in the Censorship Department and include letters from Joseph I. Breen as well as internal Paramount correspondence with Albert Deane in the Foreign Department and Hiller Innes in the production office in New York. There is miscellaneous, unrelated, correspondence between Paramount's New York and Hollywood offices from 1959.
- BiographyParamount Pictures, Inc., is one of Hollywood's oldest continuously operating film studios. Its history goes back to 1912, when studio executive Adolph Zukor imported the French feature film QUEEN ELIZABETH, starring Sarah Bernhardt, and used it to launch his Famous Players Film Company. Famous Players merged with the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in 1916 to form Famous Players-Lasky, which acquired a controlling interest in Paramount Pictures Corporation, at the time a two-year old distribution entity. In 1933 the company declared bankruptcy, Lasky was ousted, and the company reorganized to emerge as Paramount Pictures, Inc., with Zukor serving as chairman of the board emeritus. Gulf+Western acquired the company in 1966, followed by Viacom, Inc. in 1994. The studio is located in Hollywood.
- Subjects
- Acquisitions InformationGift of Mark Montgomery, 1995
- Preferred citationParamount Pictures Censorship Department records, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- DepartmentLibrary
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- AvailabilityFor information on the contents and availability of this collection please contact the Reference and Public Services department at ref@oscars.org.
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