Paramount Pictures Corporation
Organization
Biography
Paramount Pictures Corporation is a motion picture production and distribution company. It was established in 1949 after an court-ordered split of Paramount Pictures, Inc.
Found in 604 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1958
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 35
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1958
Correspondence, 1955
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1955
Correspondence, 1957
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1957
Correspondence, 1958
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1958
Correspondence, 1959
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1959
Correspondence, 1960
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1960
Correspondence, 1964
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 2 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Identified by DeMille as "Personal," this group of 196 boxes begins with 22 boxes dealing with the research and writing of the posthumously published The Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959), edited by Donald Hayne. The files are arranged chronologically by year, and items within each year are arranged alphabetically by subject or name. Over time, the organization of some of the files deteriorated into groups of unrelated records. Therefore, files...
Dates:
1964
Correspondence, 1897
Sub-Series — Box 226: Series 5; Series 6 [Barcode: 31197231223964], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 6 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
These files are listed chronologically from 1868 to 1936 and are comprised of plays written by Henry C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille, William deMille, and David Belasco. Some are holographs, some are typescripts, and some are professionally printed and published. Many are annotated. Also in this series of 11 boxes is correspondence and material relating to the theater business of the family. See also: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company/ Famous Players-Lasky Film Corporation.
Dates:
1897
Correspondence, 1914-1931
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 8 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
In late 1924, DeMille purchased the Thomas Ince Studio in Culver City and renamed the facility DeMille Studio. This series of 35 boxes documents the nearly four-year lifespan of the organization and contains two main parts: the first deals with general financial and business correspondence and story properties from 1925 to 1928, and is arranged alphabetically ; the second part is comprised of film production files from the same period including 13 boxes of material on The Road to Yesterday,...
Dates:
1914-1931
Correspondence, 1920-1921
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1400 Series 12 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Found in ths series of 261 boxes are files relating to the activities of DeMille Productions, beginning in 1916. They include financial records and ledgers from 1916 to 1952. The extensive correspondence fields (1922-1959) are arranged chronologically, and then alphabetically within each year. The original order maintained in these files often includes years other than those indicated by the file heading. Files from preceding years were occasionally brought froward for reference or for...
Dates:
1920-1921
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 601
- Collection 3
- Subject
- Letters 603
- Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography 602
- Drawings 571
- Feature films 571
- Paintings 571
- Photographic prints 571
- Scrapbooks 571
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes) 571
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American 571
- Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 33
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- History 32
- Motion picture industry -- United States -- History 32
- Motion picture plays -- History and criticism 32
- Motion picture studios -- United States -- History 32
- Motion pictures -- Setting and scenery -- United States -- History 32
- Motion pictures -- United States -- History 32
- Performing Arts 32
- Fine Arts 1
- Glass negatives 1
- Images 1
- Material Types 1
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Photographs 1
- Photographs 1
- Slides (Photography) 1
- United States -- Motion pictures 1 + ∧ less
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