page_title: Adolph Zukor
section_title: Famous Players
hierarchical_section_title: Adolph Zukor / Famous Players
caption_attribution_description: Photo of a dinner given by the motion picture industry to mark Adolph Zukor's 25th anniversary in the industry. The event was held at The Trocadero in 1936. From left-Frank Lloyd, Joe Schenck, George Jessel, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer, and Jesse Lasky.
context_page_description: Adolph Zukor was an Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced America's first feature-length film, The Prisoner of Zenda in 1913.
context_section_description: In 1912, Adolph Zukor established Famous Players Film Company—advertising "Famous Players in Famous Plays"—as the American distribution company for the French film production Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt. The following year he obtained the financial backing of the Frohman brothers, the powerful New York City theatre impresarios. Their primary goal was to bring noted stage actors to the screen and Zukor went on to produce The Prisoner of Zenda (1913). He purchased an armory on 26th Street in Manhattan and converted it into Chelsea Studios, a movie studio that is still used today.
  In 1916, the company merged with Jesse L. Lasky's company to form Famous Players-Lasky.
caption: Zukor is honored with a dinner marking his 25 years in the film industry in 1936.  From left: Frank Lloyd, Joseph M. Schenck, George Jessel, Zukor, Darryl F. Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer, and Jesse L. Lasky.
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