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Cosmopolitan Productions, also often referred to as Cosmopolitan Pictures, was an American film company based in New York City from 1918 to 1923 and Hollywood until 1938. == History == Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst formed Cosmopolitan in conjunction with Adolph Zukor of Paramount after Hearst's bid for entry into the motion picture business was rebuffed by United Artists.〔pp. 279-280 Nasaw, David ''The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst'' 2001 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt〕 The advantage of Paramount having a production deal with Cosmopolitan was that they had the film rights to stories that had appeared in the wide variety of Hearst's magazines. These included Cosmopolitan magazine (from which Hearst took the film company's name) as well as ''Harpers Bazaar'' and ''Good Housekeeping''. Thus the stories arrived pre-sold to the public, who were familiar with them through reading them in Hearst's magazines.〔p.280 Ibid〕 Hearst's magazines would also advertise and promote his films. For its studio complex, Hearst acquired Sulzer's Harlem River Park and Casino at 126th Street and Second Avenue,〔p.102 Koszarski, Richard ''An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928'' University of California Press〕 but a fire in February 1923 destroyed the complex.〔p. 208 Pizzitola, Louis ''Hearst over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies'' Columbia University Press〕 Cosmopolitan heavily promoted the career of Hearst's lover, actress Marion Davies. She appeared in twenty-nine silent and seventeen talking films with the company. Due to disagreements with Paramount in the distribution of the Cosmopolitan Pictures in block booking venues, Hearst left Paramount to have his films released by other studios. Starting in 1923, they were distributed or co-produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer until 1934 when a disagreement with Louis B. Mayer over the film ''Marie Antoinette'' led Cosmopolitan to go to Warner Brothers.〔p.189 Procter, Ben H. ''William Randolph Hearst: Final Edition, 1911-1951'' 2007 Oxford University Press〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cosmopolitan Productions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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