Cinema: Picture Business

Two years ago frenetic, tyrannical Producer Samuel ("Include me out") Goldwyn filed suit in a Federal court to compel United Artists to release him from his distribution contract. Two of his four partners in United Artists, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (who died a few months later) were no longer making films. Charlie Chaplin brooded on his art, once in a long while turned out a picture. Producer Goldwyn felt that his films were carrying United Artists, had tried in vain (with British Producer Alexander Korda) to acquire the rest of its stock....

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