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The Hollywood studio system flowered in the 1920s, headed by strong-willed leaders -- most of them immigrants and small-time entrepreneurs and many of them Jewish. Each studio had its own house style. MGM, headed by Russian-born Louis B. Mayer with Irving Thalberg as his "boy wonder" production head, was super-glossy. Warner Bros., eventually to be led by brother Jack, provided grit, while Paramount, headed by Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, lent glamour. Laemmle's Universal Pictures produced lavish spectacles and a series of fantastic dramas starring Lon Chaney. The movies' influence grew more powerful, affecting real life in terms of fashion, attitudes and behavior.
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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