Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000214
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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X I X "The Pilgrim" With the completion of "The Pilgrim" on September 25, 1922, Chaplin finished up his First National contract. He made his next films for United Artists, a company which he had helped to form in 1919, with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith. Its origin has been traced to a remark made by Oscar Price who became the company's first president. Price, then in charge of public relations for William C. McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury, had remarked to the three stars while on their Liberty Loan tour: "Why don't you folks get together and distribute your own pictures? You are big enough to do that." The casual suggestion bore fruit. In their United Artists company the three stars and the great director planned to invest their own money, produce their own pictures and distribute them themselves, thus assuring a higher rental fee and better returns. They pitted the box-office value of their names against the theatre domination of the big corporations. The United Artists Corporation of Delaware was incorporated in April 1919 with Price as president and McAdoo as counsel. The two were soon to resign and Hiram Abrams was to head the organization. Because of Chaplin's slow fulfillment of his First National contract for eight pictures, he was not effectively in the new company until he produced "A Woman of Paris" in 1923. From