Mae West: Adolph Zukor

MAE WEST worked with everyone from A to Z — — and, at Paramount Pictures, she met the biggest AZ of all.
• • Born in early January as "Adolph Cukor," Adolph Zukor [7 January 1873 — 10 June 1976] was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.
• • The Hungarian journalist Farkas László writes: Throughout the 1920's Zukor used to receive about 40 letters a day from a Hungarian nation proud of his fame and stature. He never forgot the land of his birth, and was never ashamed to let people know where he was from. He hired many Hungarians to work in his studio.
• • I'M NO ANGEL (1933) • •
• • Farkas László adds: A great starring vehicle for Mae West, world famous then as a vamp. She horrified the prudes by being not only proud of herself, but acting like it made her happy! She instantly became the feminine embodiment of the Antichrist to the puritans. The Catholic Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago warned people that watching a Mae West picture was a sin, and ordered his priests to picket outside of movie theaters with signs, telling people to stay away. How silly; you can't buy publicity like that, and for Zukor, it was all just money in the bank! Dietrich and West were two sex symbol women whose talents were best utilized by Paramount. ...
• • Farkas László concludes: Zukor ended his day-to-day oversight of film production in 1936, when he became Chairman of the Board, a position he kept until the end of his life. He died in 1976, at the incredible age of 103. Not bad for a man who decided to "cut back" his smoking to five cigars a day!
• • Go read the whole article and enjoy the photographs.
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• • Article: "When Hungarians Ruled Hollywood: A Birthday Tribute to the Great Adolph Zukor"
• • BY: Farkas László | Commentator
• • Published by: Pestiside — — www.pestiside.hu
• • Published on: 7 January 2010
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