Carl Laemmle

After that, Irving was back in Chicago for a short time, where he made powerful connections with the founders of his company.

One of those was Carl Laemmle.

Laemmle? Laemmle? Laemmle.

We're gonna go with Laemmle.

And so she came out and said, okay, fine.

She didn't like it at first, but apparently Carl Laemmle said like, look, This is non-negotiable.

And so she tried to make nice about it when she was asked about it in the press.

But she didn't really like the idea of using love as this hook, that it was just a love story.

so carl lemley who was a big part of universal he was the founder of the founder i should say yes i think it's his niece

carla so it's like carl and carla and then you can't tell me that's a coincidence carla was clearly named in tribute to her uncle So she accepted the award.

Now, made

me think, what can we look back on? Do we talk about what are our favorite Universal monster movies or maybe some facts or whatever? So it's kind of like an open forum right now, Matt.

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Carla Lamley.

Thank you.

I'm very, very proud to be here this evening to accept this prestigious award on behalf of my uncle, Carl Laemmle.

I adored Carla.

Featuring a stellar cast that also includes Charles Winninger, Benny Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland, very young, and Mischa Auer, the film made Deanna Durbin a household name and endeared her to millions of moviegoing fans.

Uh, bonus features include 100 Years of Universal, the Carl Laemmle Era, and 100 Years of Universal, the Lou Wasserman Era, little, uh, featurettes, um, so that's very cool.

Uh, but yeah, uh, definitely a fun, uh, example of what William Bodine can do.

Um, sorry, wait, this one's, this is different than I was thinking of.

In 1910, he was given an opportunity to actually direct a film when a director for IMP was unable to complete work on a small film.

Well, after that, he managed to-To convince IMP's owner, Carl Laemmle, to hire him full time, no doubt using some of his acting skills-

Yes

... because he virtually had no experience-