United Artists was founded on February 5, 1919 #OnThisDay
Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith signing their contracts. Lawyers Dennis F. O'Brien and Albert Banzhaf stand behind them.
"Pola Negri, glamour girl of the silent movies, is back on the Hollywood lots again, after an absence of 11 years. Here she is ready for her new picture in which she plays a comedy part."
- from the Toronto Star. May 12, 1943.
Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Toronto Public Library, TSPA_0070513F.
Joseph Schenck’s United Artists dinner party at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on April 8, 1925
The guests included: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Norma Talmadge, Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin, and of course our Buster