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unusual facts about Paramount Studios



A Graveyard for Lunatics

The studio shares a back wall with an adjoining cemetery (as Paramount Studios really does with Hollywood Forever Cemetery), and most of the story takes place in those two locations.

Brome Lake, Quebec

In 1968, Paramount Studios chose Knowlton as the location to film the children's movie My Side of the Mountain (film), an adaptation of a book by Jean Craighead George.

Las Vegas Monorail

BankWest debuted a red "MoneyRail" branded train, and joined Nextel Communications (now a part of Sprint Nextel Corporation), Hansens Beverage, and Paramount Studios (with a Star Trek themed train) as corporate sponsors.

Moi Navarro

Other accomplishments include working with Disney English, performing with Adam Lambert at Gridlock NYE 2010 at Paramount Studios, entertaining at the Academy Awards Gifting Suite; playing at Dodger Stadium, The Knitting Factory, The Viper Room, Spirit West Coast, The Cat Club, The Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood); being a part of Max Azria's BCBG clothing line campaign BCBGeneration, and performing for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sari Maritza

She made the German-UK film Monte Carlo Madness in Germany in 1932 before travelling to Hollywood, but her few films there for Paramount Studios and RKO Radio Pictures were poorly received.

To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei

When he heard that there was a plan to replace the original Star Trek cast with new crew members for Star Trek V, Takei rallied fans at twelve consecutive Star Trek conventions, and Paramount Studios dropped plans to change the crew.

Winter Pays for Summer

It was produced by John Fields at Paramount Studios and Mansfield Lodge, and features guest appearances by Jon Brion, Sam Phillips, Ben Folds, Andy Sturmer, Kristin Mooney, and Jonathan Foreman.


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Fun in Acapulco

While exterior filming was undertaken involving every other member of the crew at various places in Acapulco, Mexico, Elvis's own shots had to be taken at the Paramount studios in Hollywood, in March 1963, as he had been declared "persona non grata" by the Mexican authorities following a series of incidents which took place at the trendy "Las Americas" movie theatre in the Mexican capital during the openings of at least two of its earlier films, most notably

Funny Face

The film is jokingly regarded as the first (and only) M-G-M musical made at Paramount Studios since Roger Edens was the producer, Stanley Donen was the director, and quite a few of the staff members under the Arthur Freed Unit at Metro (including Adolph Deutsch, Conrad Salinger, and Skip Martin), along with Astaire and Kay Thompson, were brought over to Paramount to make this film.

Jughead's Revenge

Produced by The Vandals' Warren Fitzgerald, it was recorded at Paramount Studios and was engineered by Barry Conley.

Star Trek: The Next Generation U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints

After working on the designs for more than two years, his publisher, FASA, lost their contract with Paramount Studios forcing Whitefire to start looking for a new publisher.