The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
000266
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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CHAPTER XX EXIT MARY PICKFORD The historian dealing with circumstances as complex as those which gathered round Adolph Zukor in 1916 must take one important thread at a time and follow it to its end; otherwise he is writing only annals and chronology. When I branched off into the adventures of the American film abroad, I left Zukor in control of his own distribution and in the act of paying Mary Pickford $10,000 a week. Her relations with Zukor’s firm then and subsequently have their important bearing on the history of the moving picture. Mary Pickford, said the business, was Adolph Zukor’s mascot. When finally he lost her, pessimists and detractors prophesied his early finish. That stroke of luck — finding Pickford — had made him; her departure would leave Famous Players-Lasky a hollow shell. Indeed, any superficial observer might have said the same. Time and again, this ever-expanding business had drawn near to a danger point when the latest Pickford film, selling even beyond anticipation, hauled it over the peak. In her memoirs, Ellen Terry calls “working friendship” between men and women the cream of human in 244