5, 1935, Laemmle soon came to America with his parents. His father Max Laemmle had been working for his cousin Carl Laemmle, the co-founder of Universal Pictures, in Paris before coming to Los ...

Carl Laemmle immigrated to America from Germany at 17 with $50 in his pocket. He founded Universal Pictures in 1912 and broke Thomas Edison’s monopoly on motion pictures. In the 1930s ...

Robert Laemmle, 89, President of Laemmle Theatres, whose family is a Hollywood dynasty (his father Max was a cousin of Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Pictures), died January 9 in Santa Monica ...

A documentary about the life of Carl Laemmle, early cinema pioneer and founder of Universal Studios, documenting his life in Hollywood and his efforts in the 1930s to save Jewish families in Nazi ...

Robert “Bob” Laemmle, the president of the Los Angeles-based Laemmle Theatres who ran the chain until his son Greg took over in 2004, died Thursday in Santa Monica. He was 89.