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Subject: SELLERS, PETER; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Article on the court ruling between Peter Sellers' widow and United Artists

Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; LADD, ALAN, Jr.
Summary: Report on the promotion of Alan Ladd, Jr. within MGM/ UA

Call No: 46(794) WIL
Author: Williamson, Alice M.
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: D. Appleton Company
PubDate: 1928
PhysDes: 265p. : illus. :20cm.
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL; DAVIES, MARION; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; NEGRI, POLA; UNITED ARTISTS; SWANSON, GLORIA; STAR SYSTEM

Subject: JUGGERNAUT (UK, Richard Lester, 1974); UNITED ARTISTS; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Piece on the box-office success of United Artists' Juggernaut, largely because of the advertisment used

PhysDes: Article
Subject: SECRET OF NIMH, THE (US, Don Bluth, 1982); ANIMATION; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Article on 'The Secrets of NIMH' being of great interest to distributors at the Dallas Toy Fair.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; UNITED INTERNATIONAL PICTURES; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS
Summary: Announcement of Bill Edwards' promotion, along with job description.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982); EDWARDS, BLAKE; KWOUK, BURT; SELLERS, PETER; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Confirmation of Burt Kwouk returning to play Cato in the latest Pink Panther installment, 'Trail of the Pink Panther'.

Call No: 19MET BAR
Author: Bart, Peter
Edition: 1st ed
Place: New York
Publisher: Morrow
PubDate: 1990
PhysDes: 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; AUBREY, JAMES T.; YABLANS, FRANK; KERKORIAN, KIRK; ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN; BROOKS, RICHARD; CIMINO, MICHAEL; FIELDS, FREDDIE; GOLDBERG, LEONARD; HUTTON, TIMOTHY; LADD, ALAN, Jr.; SKASE, CHRISTOPHER; LOWE, ROB; MELNICK, DANIEL; MUDOCH, RUPERT; NICHOLSON, JACK; ROSENBERG, STUART; STEENBURGEN, MARY; WEINTRAUB, JERRY; WARGAMES (US, John Badham, 1983); RED DAWN (US, John Milius, 1984); RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988); MRS SOFFEL (US, Gillian Armstrong, 1984)
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0688084605 (acid-free paper)
LON: 6934383

Call No: 79HEA BAC
Author: Bach, Steven
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: William Morrow & Co., Inc.
PubDate: c1985
PhysDes: 432 pages ; 25 cm
Subject: BUDGETING; FINANCING; BOX OFFICE; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; UNITED ARTISTS; ALLEN, WOODY; CIMINO, MICHAEL; FIELD, DAVID; DEER HUNTER, THE (US, Michael Cimino, 1978); HEAVEN'S GATE (US, Michael Cimino, 1980)
Summary: "HEAVEN'S GATE is probably the most discussed, least seen film in modern movie history. Its notoriety is so great that it has become a generic term for disaster, for ego run rampant, for epic mismanagement, for wanton extravagance. It was also the watershed film of the decade - not for its cinematic qualities, but for its effect on Hollywood and the way movies will and will not be made in the future. For Michael Cimino's HEAVEN'S GATE did not merely fail (failure is forgivable, sometimes even endorsed in the strange labyrinths of the Hollywood psyche), HEAVEN'S GATE did the unthinkable: it sank a studio. Less than a month after the picture's second release, United Artists - the company founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin - for all practical purposes ceased to exist. Why? How?" [TAKEN FROM BOOK JACKET]
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0688043828
Donation: Simon Wincer

Call No: 81FOS WAS
Author: Wasson, Sam
Source: US
Place: Boston ; New York
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
PubDate: 2013
PhysDes: 723 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: ACADEMY AWARDS; BURLESQUE; CHOREOGRAPHY; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA; DANCE IN FILMS; DIRECTORS; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; MUSICALS. USA; UNITED ARTISTS; FOSSE, BOB; ASTAIRE, FRED; CHAYEFSKY, PADDY; DREYFUSS, RICHARD; HEIM, ALAN; MINNELLI, LIZA; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN; ALL THAT JAZZ (US, Bob Fosse, 1979); CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972); LENNY (US, Bob Fosse, 1974); NOTTI DI CABIRIA, LE (IT, Federico Fellini, 1957); ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1970); STAR 80 (US, Bob Fosse, 1983); SWEET CHARITY (US, Bob Fosse, 1969)
Summary: "We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyonce;'s moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, acclaimed cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art and earn him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional life, but his intense relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli, Fred Astaire, and Neil Simon to Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, and Dustin Hoffman. Through extensive interviews with collaborators and lovers and unprecedented access to Fosse's archives, Wasson also reveals the deep wounds that propelled his subject's excessive appetites--for spotlights, women, and life itself. In Fosse, Wasson's stylish, effervescent prose proves the ideal vehicle for reanimating Bob Fosse as he truly was--after hours, close up, and in vibrant color" -- FROM TROVE
Notes: Contains photos and index
ISBN: 9780547553290

PhysDes: Article
Subject: UNITED ARTISTS; BLUTH, DON; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS
Summary: Article on Fred Hift leaving United artists to form his own marketing company, Fred Hift International. The first film marketed will be 'The Secrets of NIMH'.

PhysDes: Focus Issue
Subject: INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; HISTORY OF CINEMA. TRANSITION SILENT-SOUND; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA; ACTORS. USA; COSTUMES; MUSIC, FILM; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; COLUMBIA PICTURES
Summary: A special edition of The Hollywood Reporter dedicated to Hollywood's centenary. Magazine looks at the formation of Hollywood, silent cinema, the Studio system, noted personalities, and the current industry. Articles focus on changing attitudes, costumes, actors, the coming of sound and musical scores and industry modernisation.

Call No: 210.31 PIC
Author: Pickard, Roy
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: Viscount Books
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32cm.
Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS; WARNER BROS.; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; RKO; COLUMBIA PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; ZANUCK, DARRYL F.
Summary: A book about Hollywood; through the superstars, films, scandals and stories of the great studios that made Hollywood what it is. It is the story of Hollywood in its golden years, covering the period from sound cinema in the 1920s, up to the 1980s.
ISBN: 0603038077

Call No: 210.31(73) GOM
Author: Gomery, Douglas
Place: Basingstoke
Publisher: Macmillan
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: 213 p. : ill
Series: British Film Institute cinema series
Subject: STUDIO SYSTEM; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; WARNER BROS.; RKO; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; COLUMBIA PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; MONOGRAM; REPUBLIC PICTURES
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0333325486 (pbk); 0333325478 (cased)
LON: 3893007

Call No: 210.31(73) GOM
Author: Douglas Gomery
CorpAuthor: British Film Institute
Place: London
Publisher: British Film Institute
PubDate: 2005
PhysDes: 333 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; WARNER BROS.; COLUMBIA PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; RKO; STUDIOS, FILM. USA; PRODUCTION COMPANIES & STUDIOS. USA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; ZUKOR, ADOLPH; WASSERMAN, LEW; HISTORY OF CINEMA
Summary: Despite being one of the most influential industries in the United States, indeed the world, the internal workings of the “dream factory” that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch…Gomery’s history tells the story of a “tale of two systems” using primary materials from a score of archives using primary materials from a score of archives across the United States as well as a close reading of both the business and trade press of the time, together with a range of photographs never before published. [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1844570649

Call No: 71(73) PIC
Author: Pickard, Roy
Place: London
Publisher: F. Muller
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: 530 p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: UNIVERSAL PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UNITED ARTISTS; WARNER BROS.; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; COLUMBIA PICTURES; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; RKO; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX
Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [487]-491
ISBN: 0584104456 : ª14.95
LON: 1473681

PhysDes: Article
Subject: UNITED INTERNATIONAL PICTURES; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; DARK CRYSTAL, THE (US, Jim Henson and Frank Oz, 1982); E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982); UNIVERSAL PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Article on the United International Pictures conference where they discussed films they will be distributing for Universal, Paramount, and MGM/UA in the upcoming months.

Subject: REID, JOHN; COLUMBIA PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Report on John Reid leaving Columbia Pictures to become the general sales manager at United Artists

PhysDes: Article
Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; DISTRIBUTION
Summary: Announcement of Charles M. Lippincott to vice-president, Motion Picture Acquisitions for MGM/UA distributors.

Call No: 81PIC WIN
Author: Windeler, Robert
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: W.H. Allen & Co
PubDate: 1973
PhysDes: 226 p. : ill. ; 18cm
Subject: PICKFORD, MARY; UNITED ARTISTS; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS
ISBN: 0352300469

PhysDes: Article
Subject: CANNERY ROW (US, David S. Ward, 1982); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; BOX OFFICE. USA
Summary: Article on the release of 'cannery Row' in America.

Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA
Summary: Article on the 3 per cent income risefor MGM/UA compared to 1983

PhysDes: Article
Subject: EUREKA (UK/US, Nicolas Roeg, 1983); ROURKE, MICKEY; HACKMAN, GENE; RUSSELL, THERESA; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Announcement of Mickey Rourke joining the cast of 'Eureka'.

Call No: 802.091.11 FRE
Author: French, Philip
Source: UK
Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1971
PhysDes: 208 p., [16] p. of plates ; 18 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; STUDIO SYSTEM; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; WARNER BROS.; COHN, HARRY; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DISNEY, WALT; KATZ, SAM; KENNEDY JOSEPH P.; LAEMMLE, CARL; LASKY, JESSE; SCHARY, DORE; SCHULBERG, BUDD; SCHENCK, JOSEPH M; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; SHEARER, NORMA; SKOURAS, SPYROS; SINCLAIR, UPTON; THALBERG, IRVING; WANGER, WALTER; STROHEIN, ERICH VON; ZANUCK, DARRYL F.; ZANUCK, RICHARD; ZUKOR, ADOLPH
Notes: includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 297762664
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

PhysDes: Article
Subject: SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS, DIE (GW, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982); FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER; UNITED ARTISTS; VIDEO, FILMS ON; DISTRIBUTION
Summary: Announcement of United Artists releasing on video R.W. Fassbinder's 'Veronika Voss' in America and Canada as part of their Classic Releases.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: VIDEO CLASSICS; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA; VIDEO, FILMS ON. AUSTRALIA; UNITED INTERNATIONAL PICTURES; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; ROCKY III (US, Sylvester Stallone, 1982); STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (US, Nicholas Meyer, 1982); THING, THE (US, John Carpenter, 1982); SHOGUN ASSASSIN (US, Robert Huston, 1980); GREASE 2 (US, Patricia Birch, 1982); POLTERGEIST (US, Tobe Hooper, 1982); URBAN COWBOY (US, James Bridges, 1980)
Summary: Article on deal struck between Video Classics and United International Pictures wherein Video Classics has exclusive rights to distributing numerous blockbusters on video in Australia through their VidAustralia outlet.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE (UK, Karel Reisz, 1981); ACADEMY AWARDS; BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS; REISZ, KAREL; BOX OFFICE; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Article on the critical and commercial success of 'the French Lieutenant's Woman'.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: MUSIC, FILM; ANIMATION; WILLIAMS, PAUL; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Article on Paul Williams' career and future musical score for 'The Secrets of NIMH'.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: RETURN OF CAPTAIN INVINCIBLE, THE (AT, Philippe Mora, 1982); MAD DOG MORGAN (AT, Philippe Mora, 1976); BEAST WITHIN, THE (US, Phillipe Mora, 1982); SWASTIKA (UK, Phillippe Mora, 1973); UNITED ARTISTS; MORA, PHILIPPE
Summary: Article and interview with Australian director Philippe Mora on his previous films, his work in England and America, and his latest film 'The Return of Captain Invincible'. Mora was the first Australian director to work for a large Hollywood studio, and 'The Return of Captain Invincible' has the largest ever budget for an Australian film.

Call No: 81MAN GEI
Author: Geist, Kenneth L
Place: New York
Publisher: Scribner
PubDate: 1978
PhysDes: xiii, 443 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; UNITED ARTISTS; WANGER, WALTER; WARNER BROS.; BENTON, ROBERT; CAINE, MICHAEL; Crawford, Joan; MANKIEWICZ, JOSEPH L.; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950); BAREFOOT CONTESSA, THE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1954); CLEOPATRA (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963)
Notes: "The films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz": p. [401]-429; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0684155001 : $12.95
LON: 78001104; 1121216

PhysDes: Article
Subject: BEAST WITHIN, THE (US, Phillipe Mora, 1982); MORA, PHILIPPE; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS
Summary: Article on the preview screening of 'The Beast Within' which included give-aways and a dress-up competition.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: HOUSE WHERE EVIL DWELLS, THE (US, Kevin Connor, 1982); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS
Summary: Article on 'The House Where Evil Dwells' receiving a science-fiction award.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: TRAIL OF THE PINK PANTHER (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982); CURSE OF THE PINK PANTHER (US, Blake Edwards, 1983); EDWARDS, BLAKE; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; SELLERS, PETER
Summary: Article on two new Pink Panther films to be directed by Blake Edwards: 'Trail of the Pink Panther' and 'Curse of the Pink Panther'.

Call No: 19UNI BAL
Author: Balio, Tino
Place: Madison
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
PubDate: 1976
PhysDes: xviii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: UNITED ARTISTS; SCHENCK, JOSEPH M.; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; PICKFORD, MARY; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0299069400 : $15.00
LON: 387258

Call No: 19UNI BAL
Author: Balio, Tino
Place: Madison, Wis.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xi, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Subject: UNITED ARTISTS; EAGLE-LION; MIRISCH CORPORATION; JAMES BOND IN FILMS; BROCCOLI, ALBERT R.; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; KRAMER, STANLEY; LANCASTER, BURT; GRIMALDI, ALBERTO; FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (US, Norman Jewison, 1971); ULTIMO TANGO A PARIGI (IT/FR, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972); MARTY (US, Delbert Mann, 1954); MOON IS BLUE, THE (US, Otto Preminger, 1953)
Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. 403-421
ISBN: 0299114406 : $32.50
LON: 5464312

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: UNITED ARTISTS

PhysDes: Article
Subject: UNITED INTERNATIONAL PICTURES; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; DISTRIBUTION; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE (UK, Karel Reisz, 1981); RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981); STARSTRUCK (AT, Gillian Armstrong, 1982)
Summary: Article on the formation of United International Pictures which will handle the distribution and marketing for MGM, Paramount, Universal, and U.A. throughout Australian Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

PhysDes: Article
Subject: YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983); STREISAND, BARBRA; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; UNITED ARTISTS
Summary: Article on the commencement of filming for 'Yentl', as well a a brief synopsis and history of the film.