Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor was born in Ricse, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary on January 7th, 1873 and is the Film Producer. At the age of 103, Adolph Zukor biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Adolph Zukor (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer best known as one of Paramount Pictures' three founders.
Early life
In January 1873, Zukor was born in Ricse, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Jacob, the father of a general store, died when he was a year old, while his mother, Hannah Liebermann, died when he was 7 years old. Adolph and his brother Arthur moved in with their uncle, Kalman Liebermann. Liebermann, a rabbi, wanted his nephews to be rabbis, but instead Adolph completed a three-year apprenticeship in the dry goods store of family friends. When he was 16, he decided to immigrate to the United States. On March 1, he sailed from Hamburg on the s/s Rugia and arrived in New York City under the name Adolf Zuckery. He started modestly, like most immigrants. He began working in an upholstery store after landing in New York City. He was given the opportunity to work as an apprentice at a furrier by a friend.
Zukor stayed in New York City for two years. He was 20 years old and an excellent designer when he left to become a "contract" employee, sewing fur pieces and selling them himself. He was young and curious, and the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago welcomed him to the Midwest. He started a fur company. Novelty Fur Company in Zukor's second season of operation doubled the number of men and opened a branch.
"One of the film industry's most notable fallacies is that the filmmakers were all impoverished young vulgarians," Zukor said. By 1903, he already looked and lived like a wealthy young burgher, and he certainly earned the money of one. He had a commodious apartment at 111th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City's wealthy German-Jewish section.
He moved to New City, Rockland County, New York, where he purchased 300 acres of land from Lawrence Abraham, the heir to the A&S Department Stores. On this property, Abraham had already constructed a sizable house, a nine-hole golf course, and a swimming pond. Zukor purchased an additional 500 acres, a night house, movie theater, locker room, greenhouses, garages, and staff quarters, as well as golf architect A.W. Tillinghast will design an 18-hole championship golf course. Zukor's estate is now the private Paramount Country Club.
Personal life
Eugene J. Zukor, who became a Paramount executive in 1916, and Mildred Zukor Loew, son of Marcus Loew, married in 1897.
In June 1976, Zukor died from natural causes at his Los Angeles home at age 103. He is buried at the Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Early film career
When his cousin, Max Goldstein, approached him for a loan to invest in a chain of theaters, he became interested in the film industry in 1903. Mitchell Mark in Buffalo, New York, opened these theaters, as well as hosted Edison Hall. Mark wanted to expand his theater chain, so he needed to find more. Zukor gave Goldstein the loan and formed a company with Mark and Morris Kohn, a Zukor friend who also invested in the theaters. On 14th Street in New York City, Zukor, Mark, and Kohn opened The Automatic Vainance Company. Marcus Loew gave them start-up branches in Boston, Philadelphia, and Newark.