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The Stars on the Paramount logo do not represent movies stars but the different district offices of the company across the US. Paramount also got its name from a local Hollywood Apartment building. It was reduced to 22 stars about the time the logo was reworked, around the time Charles Bludhorn owned the studio because two district offices were closed. Barry Diller was running Paramount at that before he jumped ship to create the Fox network. He later became a billionaire in his own right and battled (and failed in his attempt) to buy the studio which went to its current owner Sumner Redstone, owner of the National Amusement Theater chain. That is intriguing in that the Supreme Court ruling of May 3,1948 (AKA US vs. Paramount) ordered Paramount and the other studios to divest themselve of their theater chain operations in an antitrust action. In the current economy Sumner Redstone is struggling to pay down his emormous debt load and is currently attempting to divest himself of his National Amusements Theater Chain in attempt to raise capital.
THe Metro Lion story is a bit more interesting than what you portray. Marcus Loew was struggling to find a steady stream of good films for his chain of theaters. Adolf Zukor of Famous Players had been his best Vendor until Zukor started raising his prices by demanding a percentage of the box office take. In 1924 Loew controlled Metro Pictures, which merged with the foundering Goldwyn Pictures (which had lost all of its management executives, and Louis B. Mayer Productions to form Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Goldwyn brought added value in own a large studion with a distribution organization solidly in place. Marcus Loew, however, was said to find the Metro Pictures logow ith a sqawking parrot annloying and opted instead for Goldwyn's logo with the Roaring Lion. Also worth noting that is the fact that aside from providing the logo and his name in the middle of it all, Samuel Goldwyn nver actually worked for or with MGM. He istead went off to start Samuel Goldwyn Films
You can find most of this information in such books as THE PARAMOUNT STORY by John Douglas Eames, THE MGM STORY by John Douglas Eames (1975), and Mayer and Thalberg: Make Believe Saints by Samuel Marx(1975.
The Stars on the Paramount logo do not represent movies stars but the different district offices of the company across the US. Paramount also got its name from a local Hollywood Apartment building. It was reduced to 22 stars about the time the logo was reworked, around the time Charles Bludhorn owned the studio because two district offices were closed. Barry Diller was running Paramount at that before he jumped ship to create the Fox network. He later became a billionaire in his own right and battled (and failed in his attempt) to buy the studio which went to its current owner Sumner Redstone, owner of the National Amusement Theater chain. That is intriguing in that the Supreme Court ruling of May 3,1948 (AKA US vs. Paramount) ordered Paramount and the other studios to divest themselve of their theater chain operations in an antitrust action. In the current economy Sumner Redstone is struggling to pay down his emormous debt load and is currently attempting to divest himself of his National Amusements Theater Chain in attempt to raise capital.
THe Metro Lion story is a bit more interesting than what you portray. Marcus Loew was struggling to find a steady stream of good films for his chain of theaters. Adolf Zukor of Famous Players had been his best Vendor until Zukor started raising his prices by demanding a percentage of the box office take. In 1924 Loew controlled Metro Pictures, which merged with the foundering Goldwyn Pictures (which had lost all of its management executives, and Louis B. Mayer Productions to form Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. Goldwyn brought added value in own a large studion with a distribution organization solidly in place. Marcus Loew, however, was said to find the Metro Pictures logow ith a sqawking parrot annloying and opted instead for Goldwyn's logo with the Roaring Lion. Also worth noting that is the fact that aside from providing the logo and his name in the middle of it all, Samuel Goldwyn nver actually worked for or with MGM. He istead went off to start Samuel Goldwyn Films
You can find most of this information in such books as THE PARAMOUNT STORY by John Douglas Eames, THE MGM STORY by John Douglas Eames (1975), and Mayer and Thalberg: Make Believe Saints by Samuel Marx(1975.