Ninety Years of United Artists
It was still 10 years before talkies and the start of the Golden Age of Hollywood when a few prominent movie actors and a director banded together to launch a movie studio of their own. Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith, concerned with the consolidation of power between studios and distributors, incorporated United Artists on February 5, 1919. The studio faced challenges and ridicule almost immediately – feature films grew pricey to produce; sound ended Pickford’s career; Chaplin worked only rarely; and one producer is believed to …
