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who had been operating a successful, modest studio in east Los
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Loew found himself faced with a serious dilemma: his merged companies lacked a central managerial command structure. Loew preferred to remain in New York overseeing the growing chain of Loew's
Theatres. Film production had been gravitating toward southern California since 1913. By 1917 he oversaw a
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on May 7 1870, into a poor Jewish family, who had emigrated to New York City a few years previously from
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By 1905, Marcus Loew was on his own and his success eventually meant that he needed a steady flow of films for his theaters. In 1904, he founded the People's
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E. M. (Elias Moses) Loew (1897–1984), also a major theater operator, to a lesser degree, and race track owner, is often assumed to be related to Marcus Loew. They weren't even distantly related. Among other things, E. M. Loew was, with
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