Resource guide for grandparents and their families
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Carl Laemmle
February 10, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:35 pm
$12 – $14
Director: James Freedman
2017/USA/91 minutes
English
This is the extraordinary life story of the German Jewish immigrant who helped to invent the modern motion picture business. The man whose motto was, “it can be done” fought and ultimately conquered Thomas Edison’s attempts to monopolize the film industry. Creating Universal Pictures in 1912, Laemmle would go on to give many Hollywood legends their starts, including Walt Disney, John Ford, William Wyler, Irving Thalberg, and others. He also hired many female directors and made Lois Weber the highest paid director on his lot. Under Laemmle’s leadership, Universal would become known for its classic monster movies (The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.).
When he sold Universal in 1936, Carl would go on to do something far more important than any movie or studio he had created: battling Adolph Hitler’s government and a notoriously anti-Semitic U.S. State Department, Laemmle ultimately rescued over 300 Jewish refugee families from Nazi Germany.
Colorado Premiere
Learn more about Carl Laemmle from his great grandniece Antonio Carlotta: