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Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, along with Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, William Fox, and the Warner Brothers, was part of the group of Eastern European immigrant Jews that founded the movie industry in Hollywood, California, in the first decades of the 20th century. Laemmle produced or worke…
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business · German-American film producer (1867–1939) · film producer · entrepreneur · executive producer · producer · film actor · actor · also Carl Laemmle, Karl Lämmle, Carl Lämmle, Karl Laemmle, Carl Laemmle Sr., Laemmle
Born 17 January 1867 · Died 24 September 1939 · Q61074
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2024· 1 entry
Deadline.com: Martin Moszkowicz Honored With The Carl Laemmle Producer Award
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2022· 1 entry
Forbes: Not So Quiet On The Western Front: Remembering The Activism of Universal Pictures’ Carl Laemmle
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2019· 3 entries
Los Angeles Magazine: Studio Boss Carl Laemmle Took on the Government to Save Jews from the Nazis
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Jewish Journal: ‘Carl Laemmle’ Embodies the Jewish Experience in America
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Yahoo: Set To Open L.A.’s Jewish Film Festival, The Documentary ‘Carl Laemmle’ Recalls Some Grand Humanity
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2018· 1 entry
Jewish Journal: The Female Shangri-La of Carl Laemmle
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1939· 3 entries
In Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 72
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Died 1939-09-24.
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Where many were murdered in the Holocaust
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1936· 2 entries
Laemmle sponsored silent-era filmmaker James Cruze, giving him carte blanche to direct a large-scale western, Sutter's Gold
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"The name means 'little lamb' and is pronounced as if it were spelled 'lem-lee'
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1932· 1 entry
Laemmle opened the Laemmle Building on Hollywood and Vine
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1919· 1 entry
At the age of 43, Recha died from pneumonia caused by the Spanish flu
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1916· 1 entry
Laemmle sponsored the $3,000 three-foot-tall solid silver Universal Trophy for the winner of the annual Universal race at the Uniontown Speedway board track in southwestern Pennsylvania
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1915· 1 entry
Laemmle opened the world's largest motion picture production facility, Universal Studios Hollywood, on a 230-acre (0
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1912· 1 entry
In New York, Laemmle brought together Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company, Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company, William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company, David Horsley of Nestor Film Company, as well as
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1906· 1 entry
At the age of 39, Laemmle quit his job
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1898· 1 entry
Laemmle married Recha Stern, the niece of Sam Stern, his employer at the Continental Clothing Company
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1889· 1 entry
Became a naturalized American citizen
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1884· 2 entries
And arrived in New York on February 14, 1884
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And worked in Chicago for 20 years before he began buying nickelodeons, eventually expanding into a film distribution service, the Laemmle Film Service, then into production as Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP),
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1883· 1 entry
Laemmle decided to emigrate to the US for a better life, also following his thirteen-year-older brother Joseph
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1867· 2 entries
Born 1867-01-17.
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To Julius Baruch Lämmle and Rebekka Lämmle, a Jewish couple in the Radstrasse, a street in the Jewish quarter of Laupheim, in the Kingdom of Württemberg
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