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COLUMBIA PICTURES

Adress: 1438 Gower Street, Hollywood.

 

Current adress : Burbank Studios, 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank.

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The Cohn brothers, Jack and Harry, ran the studio.

At that time, the Columbia Pictures was one of the lower budget studios and worked because of borrowing the stars from the other studios.

In the 30's, the studio would make a fortune with "It Happened One Night", a comedy which would be the basis of the studio celebrity and fortune.

Link with Marilyn :

Her mother Gladys Baker worked there as a film cutter in 1927.

Grace McKee worked also there in 1934.

On March 9th 1948, Harry Cohn, head of the Columbia, signed a 6 months contract to Marilyn, on the basis of 125$ a week. She had been recommanded to him by one of the Fox Studios directors, Joe Schenck.

She only played io one movie, "Ladies of the Chorus".

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Her stay at the studio meant a lot : the studio hairdressers drew her hairstyle again and made her hair more bouffant, with electrolysis sessions. Then her ash blond hair was treated with hydrogen peroxide to make them platinum bonde, like Jean Harlow's style.

Max Arnow, one of the casting directors, introduced her to Natasha Lytess, her drama teacher for 7 years and to Fred Karger, her singing teacher.

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