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1006:. He convinced Broidy that the days of low-budget films were ending, and in 1946 Monogram created a new unit, Allied Artists Productions, to make costlier films. The new name was meant to mirror the name of United Artists by evoking images of "creative personnel uniting to produce and distribute quality films".
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Monogram's fortunes improved even more after World War II. With
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Mirisch's prediction about the end of the low-budget film had come true thanks to television, and in
September 1952 Monogram announced that henceforth it would only produce films bearing the Allied Artists name. The Monogram brand name was retired in 1953, and the company was now known as Allied
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Monogram continued to be the parent company; the "Allied
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After fire damage, the sets were replaced; as of 2012, the studio had 74 buildings (including offices) and two sound stages. The owners in 2019 were Renaud and Andre
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Monogram continued to launch new series. In 1946 The East Side Kids became The Bowery Boys under a new producer, Jan Grippo. The former producer, Sam
Katzman, began a new musical-comedy series called "The Teen Agers" (1946-48) as a vehicle for singer
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Monogram was the first substantial theatrical distributor to offer its recent films to network television, in April 1948. Steve Broidy's asking price was $ 1,000,000 for a package of 200 features, or $ 5,000 per title. The
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Mirisch family held great influence at Allied Artists, with Walter as executive producer, his brother Harold as head of sales, and brother Marvin as assistant treasurer.
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immediately (with several "exploitation" melodramas cashing in on topical themes), and did achieve some success, but
Monogram never became a respectable "major" studio like former poverty-row denizen
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that had never played
Monogram's budget movies -- as well as small, independent theaters that depended on bargain-rate films to turn a profit -- began using Monogram features regularly.
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Hollywood picture cost about $ 800,000 (and the average Monogram picture cost about $ 90,000), Allied Artists' first release, the Christmas-themed comedy
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were box-office flops in 1956–57, studio head Broidy reverted to the kind of pictures Monogram had previously been known for: low-budget action pictures and thrillers, such as
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network declined the offer, and the films went instead to Motion Pictures for Television, a pioneer TV syndicator established in 1951 by film executive Matty Fox.
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in 1940 but found a home at Monogram. Storm had been promoted from Monogram's Frankie Darro series and was showcased in crime dramas (like
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Corporation. Ralph Branton, a former exhibitor who became a Monogram executive, was named president. Interstate's biggest success was the
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was released in 1975, but received disappointing returns. That same year, the company distributed the French import
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purchased the Monogram Ranch property from the Hickson heirs in 1953, renaming it after his film
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contributed to the Monogram release schedule with his
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