Title
Film Fun
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Leslie Judge Company
Date
July 1915
Subject
Number 316
Description
The earliest film superstars were “America’s Sweetheart,” Mary Pickford, and “The Tramp,” Charlie Chaplin, who partnered in January 1919 with Pickford’s husband, actor Douglas Fairbanks and the most innovative and controversial filmmaker, D.W. Griffith, to form United Artists, a new distribution company that gave them the ability to fund and control the content of their films.