Famous Players
In 1912, Adolph Zukor established Famous Players Film Company -- advertising "Famous Players in Famous Plays" -- as the American distribution company for the French film production Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt. The following year he obtained the financial backing of the Frohman brothers, the powerful New York City theatre impresarios. Their primary goal was to bring noted stage actors to the screen and Zukor went on to produce The Prisoner of Zenda (1913). He purchased an armoury on 26th Street in Manhattan and converted it into Chelsea Studios, a movie studio that is still used today. Zukor was also a member of The Lambs, a theatrical social group started in NYC in 1874.
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