United Artists Film Studio Is Founded (1919)
United Artists Corporation (UA) is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, with the intention of
controlling their own interests rather than depending upon the powerful commercial studios.
The current United Artists formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company.Paula Wagner left the studio on August 14, 2008. Cruise owned a small stake in the studio until late 2011.It is now a fully owned subsidiary ofMGM, which itself is owned by MGM Holdings.
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