California was quickly recognized as the ideal setting for the American film industry, with its relative freedom from patent problems, constant sunshine and varied geography. As early as 1909, moviemakers were hard at work in Hollywood, including William Selig, who had founded one of the country's first movie studios in Chicago. In 1913 Jesse Lasky, Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil B. DeMille formed a filmmaking company and established themselves among the first generation of Hollywood moguls, producing one of the first feature-length films in the U.S., The Squaw Man (1914).
Christopher Plummer
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Leonard Maltin
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Ricky Jay
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Carla Laemmle
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Daniel Selznick
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Gregory Orr
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Marc Wanamaker
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Bob Balaban
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Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
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Tony Maietta
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Molly Haskell
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Donald Bogle
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Richard D. Zanuck
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Robert Osborne
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Gore Vidal
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William Wellman Jr.
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Andrew Bergman
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Marsha Hunt
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Sidney Lumet
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Paul Mazursky
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Roger Corman
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Mark Harris
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Walter Mirisch
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David Brown
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Peter Guber
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Robert Benton
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Buck Henry
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John Sayles
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