Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
000218
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
August 22, 2024
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214 SODOM AND GOMORRAH to curb the salaries of the executives to the point where the difference would net them something in dividends. The incomes enjoyed by some of the Hollywood stuffed-shirts for 1932 are given in a liberal magazine as follows : Louis B. Mayer, M-G-M vice-president in charge of production $800,000.00 (including, of course, bonuses). Jesse Lasky, Fox producer $520,000.00 Irving Thalberg. M-G-M associate producer $400,000.00 Nicholas Schenck. President of Loew's Incorporated $404,000.00 (plus 2Y2% of all the profits). Benjamin P. Schulberg, then production manager for Paramount Publix $400,000.00 Each of the Warner Brothers $520,000.00 Now let us examine the financial set-up of the various companies whose officials drew the abovementioned stipends. It is only to be expected that in return for the magnificent salaries they enjoy, these executives must accomplish wonderful things for their corporations. The only picture company in Hollywood that has any claim to art is the United Artists, including Twentieth Century Pictures, which company most nearly approaches the goal of producing consistently fine pictures. The rest of them make either mediocre or downright poor films, their occasional good ones merely constituting the exception that proves the rule. This being the case, the only thing left