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Crew and studio executives during the production of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” (1921). Marcus Loew is third from…

Cover of pressbook for “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” (1921), produced by Marcus Loew’s Metro Pictures.

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night, 1934

Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly in Cover Girl (1944), one of Cohn’s major accomplishments which spotlighted the new star power…

With Cover Girl (1944), Cohn capitalized on the sexuality of Hayworth, already known as America’s “bombshell” new beauty.

A poster for It Happened One Night (1934), the film that put Columbia on the map and catapulted the careers…

Sennett and Kessel reviewing the extension of the Mack Sennett Studios in Edendale, Los Angeles.

Mack Sennett and Adam Kessel on the set of a Keystone film.