Adolph Zukor Overview:

Legendary producer, Adolph Zukor, was born on Jan 7, 1873 in Ricse, Austria-Hungary. [now in Hungary]. Zukor died at the age of 103 on Jun 10, 1976 in Los Angeles, CA and was laid to rest in Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. Adolph Zukor's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #101 on Jan 5, 1953. Zukor was never nominated for an Academy Award. However he won one Honorary Award in 1948 as a man who has been called the father of the feature film in America, for his services to the industry over a period of forty years .

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Paramount-Publix went bankrupt in 1933, and was reorganized as Paramount Pictures, Inc. He was forced out as part of the reorganization, but after Barney Balaban became Paramount president in 1936, he appointed Zukor chairman of the board. In return, Zukor always called Balaban "the boy." They served together 28 years, until Balaban was forced out of Paramount in 1964 after the failure of the big-budgeted The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).

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He was credited as presenter to Paramount cartoons from 1935 to 1939. These cartoons were acquired by television distributors U.M.&M., National Telefilm Associates, and Associated Artists Productions, in 1955. The TV distributors were instructed to remove all evidence of Paramount's involvement in the cartoons. The "Adolph Zukor Presents" byline was kept on, but the "Paramount Presents" bylines were blacked out. The TV distributors apparently did not think that anyone would recognize Zukor as Paramount's chairman.

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