22-493: Laemmle is a surname, shared largely by a family of filmmakers. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Laemmle (1867–1939), German-American film producer Carl Laemmle Jr. (1908–1979), American film producer Carla Laemmle (1909–2014), American dancer and actress Ernst Laemmle (1900–1950), German film director Edward Laemmle (1887–1937), American film director See also [ edit ] Laemmle Building ,
44-617: A 230-acre (0.9-km ) converted farm in the San Fernando Valley , just over the Cahuenga Pass from Hollywood. Universal maintained two East Coast offices: The first was located at 1600 Broadway, New York City. This building, initially known as the Studebaker Building , was razed around 2004 or 2005. The second location to house Universal's executive offices was at 730 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Many years later, 445 Park Avenue
66-522: A Jewish school. When he was 13, she arranged a three-year apprenticeship for him in Ichenhausen , a nearby village, where he learned accounting and sales, and worked to support his family. After his mother died in 1883, Laemmle decided to emigrate to the US for a better life, also following his thirteen-year-older brother Joseph. For his 17th birthday, his father had given him the tickets for an Atlantic crossing on
88-464: A bolder advertising style. In 1906, at the age of 39, Laemmle quit his job. He initially wanted to open a network of cheap retail stores, but changed his mind after entering a nickelodeon . He started one of the first motion picture theaters in Chicago, The White Front on Milwaukee Avenue, and quickly branched out into film exchange services. He challenged Thomas Edison's monopoly on moving pictures,
110-683: A former building in Hollywood, California, U.S. Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles, California, U.S. [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Laemmle . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laemmle&oldid=1245822608 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
132-436: A producer (1909–1934), is remembered for The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Phantom of The Opera (1925), both with Lon Chaney Sr. in the title role, and The Man Who Laughs (1928) and most of the early sound horror films, such as Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931), with his son, Carl Jr. Laemmle remained connected to his home town of Laupheim throughout his life, providing financial support to it. In
154-418: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carl Laemmle Carl Laemmle ( / ˈ l ɛ m l i / ; born Karl Lämmle German: [ˈlɛmlə] ; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures . He produced or worked on over 400 films. Regarded as one of the most important of
176-597: The Motion Picture Patents Company , under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 . As part of his offensive against Edison's company, Laemmle began advertising individual "stars," such as Mary Pickford and Florence Lawrence , thus increasing their individual earning power, and thus their willingness to side with the "Independents." After moving to New York, Carl Laemmle became involved in producing movies, forming Independent Moving Pictures (IMP);
198-561: The "Universal Film Manufacturing Company", with Laemmle assuming the role of president. They founded the Company with studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey , where at the beginning of the 20th century many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based. On March 15, 1915, Laemmle opened the world's largest motion picture production facility, Universal Studios Hollywood , on
220-573: The 1930s he sponsored hundreds of Jews from Laupheim and Württemberg to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the United States, paying both emigration and immigration fees, thus saving them from the Holocaust . To ensure and facilitate their immigration, Laemmle contacted American authorities, members of the House of Representatives and Secretary of State Cordell Hull . He also intervened to try to secure entry for
242-542: The city was the site of many new movie-related businesses. On April 30, 1912, in New York, Laemmle brought together Pat Powers of Powers Motion Picture Company, Mark Dintenfass of Champion Film Company , William Swanson of Rex Motion Picture Company , David Horsley of Nestor Film Company , as well as Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel of the New York Motion Picture Company , to merge their companies with IMP as
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#1732856039706264-625: The early film pioneers, Laemmle was born in what is now Germany . He immigrated to the United States in 1884 and worked in Chicago for 20 years before he began buying nickelodeons , eventually expanding into a film distribution service, the Laemmle Film Service, then into production as Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) , later renamed Universal Film Manufacturing Company , and later still renamed Universal Pictures Company. Karl Lämmle
286-559: The film industry included his cousins Max Laemmle , Kurt Laemmle , and William Wyler ; his nephews Ernst Laemmle and Edward Laemmle ; his niece Carla Laemmle ; and his brothers-in-law Isadore Bernstein , Joseph Stern , and Abe Stern . His great-nephew Michael Laemmle is a noterd resident of Darwin, California , and was featured in the 2011 documentary Darwin: No Services Ahead . His great-grandniece, Antonia Carlotta, talks about him at length in Universally Me , her web series about
308-499: The final construction was a one-story restaurant, the original plans thwarted by the Great Depression . In 1936, Laemmle and his son were removed from the company he founded by a hostile takeover. He briefly resumed distribution with a partner, Michael Mindlin, specializing in foreign films as CL Imports, in the mid-1930s, but for the most part remained in secluded retirement until his death. In 1898, Laemmle married Recha Stern,
330-543: The former home of film pioneer Thomas Ince on Benedict Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills, which was razed in the early 1940s; he also maintained a large apartment for himself and his two children at 465 West End Avenue in New York City. Asked how to pronounce his surname, Laemmle told The Literary Digest in 1936, "The name means 'little lamb' and is pronounced as if it were spelled 'lem-lee'." Laemmle's relatives in
352-599: The history of Universal Studios. Poet Ogden Nash observed the following about Laemmle's habit of giving his son and nephews top executive positions in his studios: Uncle Carl Laemmle Has a very large faemmle. Laemmle died from cardiovascular disease on September 24, 1939, in Beverly Hills, California , at the age of 72. Laemmle was entombed in the Chapel Mausoleum at Home of Peace Cemetery . Laemmle, although having made hundreds of films in his active years as
374-523: The niece of Sam Stern, his employer at the Continental Clothing Company. Together, they had a daughter named Rosabelle (born 1903) and a son named Julius (born 1908). Rosabelle later married Stanley Bergerman , while Julius became known as Carl Laemmle Jr. On January 13, 1919, at the age of 43, Recha died from pneumonia caused by the Spanish flu . After moving to California, Laemmle purchased
396-934: The refugees on board the SS ; St. Louis , who were ultimately sent back from Havana to Europe in 1939, where many were murdered in the Holocaust. SS Neckar SS Neckar may refer to one of the following North German Lloyd steamships: SS Neckar (1874) , passenger ship in service 1874–1896; scrapped at Genoa, 1896. SS Neckar (1901) , passenger ship in service 1901–1917; seized by United States; served as troopship USS Antigone (ID-3007); served as SS Potomac for United States Lines, 1921–1922; scrapped at Baltimore, 1927. SS Neckar (1927) , cargo ship in service from 1927, renamed Sperrbrecher 8 in 1939, heavily damaged at Brest in 1944 and scuttled. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with
418-498: The same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Neckar&oldid=1087018236 " Categories : Set index articles on ships Ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
440-486: The steamboat SS Neckar plus fifty dollars. He left Bremerhaven on January 28, 1884, and arrived in New York on February 14, 1884. He settled in Chicago . Here he lived for about twenty years as a bookkeeper and office manager. In 1889, he became a naturalized American citizen. Laemmle worked a variety of jobs, but by 1894 he was the bookkeeper of the Continental Clothing Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin , where he introduced
462-585: Was born in 1867 to Julius Baruch Lämmle and Rebekka Lämmle, a Jewish couple in the Radstrasse, a street in the Jewish quarter of Laupheim , in the Kingdom of Württemberg . His father was a cattle merchant, also involved in land transactions. The family struggled financially and lived in poverty: Of his eleven siblings only 3 reached adulthood. He was one of the youngest children, and close to his mother, who enrolled him in
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#1732856039706484-548: Was the location of Universal's executive offices. In 1916, Laemmle sponsored the $ 3,000 three-foot-tall solid silver Universal Trophy for the winner of the annual Universal race at the Uniontown Speedway board track in southwestern Pennsylvania. Universal filmed each race from 1916 to 1922. In 1932, Laemmle opened the Laemmle Building on Hollywood and Vine . Originally planned as a 900-seat theater and office tower,
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