Columbia Pictures Industries, Incorporated, a new motion picture studio, was founded by brothers Jacob and Harry Cohn and their business partner Joseph Brandt. Frank Capra’s 1934 classic It Happened One Night swept the Oscars, and Columbia Pictures established itself as an elite studio, responsible for numerous films from award-winners and timeless classics to pop-culture phenomenons including: It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, You Can't Take it With You, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, From Here to Eternity, On The Waterfront, Lawrence of Arabia, To Sir With Love, Funny Girl, Taxi Driver, Tootsie, The Karate Kid, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Men In Black, Ghostbusters, Boyz n the Hood, Groundhog Day, A League Of Their Own, The Social Network, Jumanji, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Little Women, Spider-Man, and many more.
Screen Gems, supplier of, among other memorable television series, the 1966-1968 NBC situation comedy The Monkees, was the television subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, which also distributed The Monkees' 1968 cinematic series finale, HEAD. (Abraham Schneider, father of series Producer/Executive Producer Bert Schneider, was Studio Head at the time.)
The Monkees Film & TV Vault wishes Columbia Pictures Industries, Incorporated a very happy centennial!
