Interviews with People Prominent in Production (1936 and 1937) 🇺🇸

I. E. Chadwick is independent through to the core!

One thousand dollars (yes, $1000!), plus a wealth of nerve and imagination, were Maurice Conn’s assets as he started on his career as a film maker

E. B. Derr’s greatest asset has been his unerring ability to develop stars

Edward Halperin and Victor Halperin boast a far greater average of successful pictures than many of the major producers

With skimpy budgets, pictures usually sans top flight box-office names and hastily written scripts, George A. Hirliman has made money for the exhibitors, his distributors and himself

When the fickle public tires of an actor’s face, Sol Lesser merely rolls up his coat and pulls another from his sleeve

Nat Levine is hailed by the industry as “King of Serial Makers”

David L. Loew knows what exhibitors need and what the public wants

Lindsley Parsons

Harry Sherman sought for people who were the best in their respective lines. No hack directors, cameramen, script writers would satisfy this Man With An Idea

Robert E. Welsh

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B. F. Zeidman (February 1937)

The next time Doug fired Bennie, it all settled with a champagne hangover

B. F. Zeidman (March 1937)

Bennie Zeidman persuaded his boss to pay him an extra five dollars a week to get articles about his employer’s films in the papers, thus becoming the world’s first studio press agent