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Marcus Loew (May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) was an American  business magnate

and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-

Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

Born into a poor Jewish family in New York City, he was forced by circumstances to

work at a very young age and thus had little formal education.

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Warner Bros.

The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers (bornWonskolaser [pron. WON Sko La' Ser] or Wonsal)[2][3] — Harry (born Hirsz),

Albert (born Aaron), Sam (born Szmul), and Jack (Itzhak or to some sources

Jacob). Harry, Albert, Sam and their Jewish parents emigrated to North America from the part of Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empire 

following the eighteenth-century  partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian

Commonwealth near present-day Ostrołęka, Poland. Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario, Canada

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Universal

Regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers, Carl Laemmle

was born on the Radstrasse just outside the former Jewish quarter of Laupheim.He emigrated to the US in 1884, working in Chicago as a bookkeeper or office

manager for 20 years.

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Buena Vista / Walt Disney

Accusations of antisemitism and racism

Disney was long rumored to be antisemitic during his lifetime, and such rumors

 persisted after his death. In 1939 he welcomed German filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl to Hollywood to promote her film Olympia.[111] 

Even after news of  Kristallnacht broke in November 1938, Disney did not

cancel his invitation to Riefenstahl.[112][113][114]

Animator and director David Swift, who was Jewish, told a biographer thatwhen he informed Disney that he was leaving to take a job at Columbia Pictures 

in 1938, DIsney responded — in a feigned Yiddish accent — "Okay, Davy boy,

off you go to work for those Jews. It's where you belong, with those Jews."[115] 

Swift returned to Disney Studios in 1945, however, and later said that he "owedeverything" to Disney. When he left the studio a second time in the early 1950s,

Disney reportedly told him, "...there is still a candle burning in the window if you ever want to come back."[116]

In 2006 Disney biographer  Neal Gabler , the first writer to gain unrestricted

access to the Disney archives, concluded that available evidence did not support

accusations of antisemitism. In a CBS interview Gabler summarized his

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findings:

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That's one of the questions everybody asks me... My answer to

that is, not in the conventional sense that we think of someone as

 being an antisemite. But he got the reputation because, in the

1940s, he got himself allied with a group called the MotionPicture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, which

was an anti-Communist and antisemitic organization. And though

Walt himself, in my estimation, was not antisemitic, nevertheless,he willingly allied himself with people who were antisemitic, and

that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it

throughout his life.[117] ”

Disney eventually distanced himself from the Motion Picture Alliance in the

1950s.[118]

The Walt Disney Family Museum acknowledges that Disney did have "difficult

relationships" with some Jewish individuals, including David Hilberman and Art 

Babbitt, and that ethnic stereotypes common to films of the 1930s were included

in some early cartoons, such as Three Little Pigs and The Opry House; but bothGabler and the museum have pointed out that he befriended many Jewish

schoolmates, donated to several Jewish charities (The Hebrew Orphan Asylum,

Yeshiva College, Jewish Home for the Aged, and The American League for aFree Palestine), and was named "1955 Man of the Year" by the B'nai B'rith 

chapter in Beverly Hills.[119][120] According to Gabler, none of Disney's

employees — including Babbitt, who disliked Disney intensely — ever accusedhim of making antisemitic slurs or taunts.[121]

Disney was also rumored to be racist. During a story meeting on Snow White

and the Seven Dwarfs he referred to the scene in which the dwarfs pile on top of 

each other as a "nigger pile", and while casting Song of the South he used theterm pickaninny. Disney cartoons of the 1940s and '50s sometimes displayed

racial stereotyping and racially insensitive material. Examples include Mickey's

 Mellerdrammer , in which Mickey Mouse dresses in blackface; the "black" birdin the short Who Killed Cock Robbin; Sunflower, the half donkey/half black 

centaurette with a watermelon in Fantasia; the feature film Song of the South;

the Indians in  Peter Pan; and the crows in Dumbo (although the case has beenmade that the crows were sympathetic to Dumbo, because they knew what itwas like to be ostracized).[122]

420th Century Fox

Willia, Fox was born in Tolcsva, Hungary[4]  and originally named Wilhelm

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Fried. His parents, Michael Fried and Anna Fuchs, were both German Jews.[3][5]

[6] Eventually the family emigrated to the United States and settled in  New York 

City. Wilhelm worked as a newsboy and in the fur and garment industry as ayouth, then later changed his name to William Fox. In 1900, he started his own

company which he sold in 1904 to purchase his first  nickelodeon. In 1915, he

started Fox Film Corporation.

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Sony / Columbia

Harry Cohn was born to a working-class Jewish family in New York City

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Paramount

Adolph Zukor was born to a Jewish family in Ricse, Hungary

Daniel Frohman (August 22, 1851 - December 26, 1940) was a Jewish 

American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer.

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Lionsgate

Giustra was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in 1957, and lived in Italy andArgentina as a child

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Weinstein Company

Bob Weinstein was born in Flushing, New York . He was raised in a Jewish

family

Harvey Weinstein was born in Flushing, New York .[3] He was raised in a Jewish 

family

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