UNITED ARTISTS (1919-1956): THE STUDIO CREATED AND MADE FOR THE STARS

Founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the studio was premised on allowing actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios. While Griffith dropped out as early as 1924 the rest of the trio remained owners untill Fairbanks died in 1939. The movies during the first decade was varied and they also distributed a lot of British films and films from Samuel Goldwyn and Darryl F. Zanuck. UA started only to be profitable during the mid 1930s. The studio managed to stay afloat and at the same time changing the studio monopoly at the same time, but the...