Cosmopolitan Productions
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Cosmopolitan Productions was an American film company based in New York from 1918 to 1923 and Hollywood until 1938.
[edit] History
Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst formed it primarily to promote the career of his lover, the actress Marion Davies. She appeared in twenty-nine silent and seventeen talking films with the company.
Cosmopolitan films were, for the first few years, distributed by Paramount. Starting in 1923, they were distributed or co-produced by MGM and from 1934 by Warner Bros..
[edit] Legacy
Robert G. Vignola is a director strongly associated with Cosmopolitan Productions. He directed several films there, including 1922's extravagant When Knighthood Was in Flower, which at a cost of $1.8 million, was the most expensive picture ever made at the time. Director King Vidor made three comedies with Cosmopolitan: Show People (1928), The Patsy (1928) and Not So Dumb (1930), each starring Davies.
Other important directors worked briefly with Cosmopolitan, such as John Ford with Young Mr. Lincoln (released 1939) and Howard Hawks with Ceiling Zero (in 1936).
