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  1. United Artists Corporation ( UA) was an American production and distribution company founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as a venture premised on allowing actors to control their own financial and artistic interests rather than being dependent upon commercial studios.

  2. View full company info for Chaplin-Mayer Pictures Company. 1. Old Dad (1920) 50 min | Drama. Rate this. Mr. Bretton's wife decides she would rather pursue an opera career, so they separate, leaving him to raise their young daughter Daphne (Mildred Harris). She is expelled from boarding school... See full summary »

  3. Nov 13, 2009 · On February 5, 1919, Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith join forces to create their own film studio, which they called the United Artists...

  4. Jan 23, 2023 · Mayer began his career in the entertainment industry as a film distributor in 1914, and he established Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation in Hollywood just four years later (via Famous Entrepreneurs); the company eventually merged with Metro Pictures Corp. and Goldwyn Pictures to form MGM in 1924.

  5. Aug 14, 2019 · The company was renamed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., and Crédit Lyonnais hired executive John Calley to try to revive United Artists. The Calley years brought us the hit comedy The Birdcage , the Bond film GoldenEye , Oscar-nominated Leaving Las Vegas , and the notorious Showgirls .

  6. Originally established by film star Charlie Chaplin, the property served as Charlie Chaplin Studios from 1917 to 1953, which later earned the site designation as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

  7. Polly of the Storm Country is a lost [1] 1920 American drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and written by Frank Mitchell Dazey. The film stars Mildred Harris, Emory Johnson, Charlotte Burton, Harry Northrup, Ruby Lafayette, and Maurice Valentin.