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Yates and Vera's relatives were pushed out of Republic and the film business in 1959, the same year Republic's board decided to switch emphasis from production to distribution, selling their controlling interest to Victor M. Carter for nearly $ 6 million. Yates became chairman of the board.
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label to replace Vocalion, which allowed the rights to the Brunswick and Vocalion labels to return to Warner Bros. They sold the rights to those labels to Decca Records in the early 1940s. In a complicated move, CBS managed to keep the rights to the ARC material from 1931 through 1938.
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catalogue in 1934. During the 1930s, ARC produced the Brunswick and Columbia labels at 75c each and the Oriole (for McCrory), Romeo (for Kress), Melotone, Vocalion, Banner, Conqueror (for Sears), and Perfect labels at 35c each, or 3 records for $ 1.00.
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In December 1938 the entire ARC complex was purchased from Consolidated Film for $ 700,000 by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). After CBS brought back Columbia as their flagship label, they brought back the inactive
526:. Ford had tried to make the Irish love story for years, but none of the studio heads would take a chance on it. Yates risked a budget of more than a million dollars, making possible the use of 279:, New York, in 1880. He started his business career at an early age, building a newspaper sales business on the streets of Brooklyn. Later, he ascended rapidly through the ranks of the 499:. He would go on to star in 56 feature films for Republic between 1935 and 1947. In 1938 Yates created a second American icon by giving Roy Rogers his first starring role in 488:. Under Yates' leadership, Republic first leased, and then purchased the lot, expanding it from six stages to nineteen and adding state-of-the-art production facilities. 571:
In 1958 Yates was accused of exploiting Republic for his own gain, in particular his promotion of his wife's career. It was alleged that 18 of her 20 films had been
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Focusing on the movie and recording business, he built a small empire, acquiring record companies and film laboratories. In the 1920s he provided financing for
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Yates formed Republic Pictures in 1935 by arranging for the merger of several smaller production companies with his
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By 1932, ARC was king of the 3-records-for-a-dollar market, selling 6 million units, twice as much as competitor
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record labels. In the following years, the company was heavily involved in a depressed market for
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process) and location filming in Ireland. It earned triple its cost and earned Republic its only
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In 1934 Gene Autry had his first film role in the Mascot production of
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In 1948 Yates left his wife Petra for the Czech figure skater
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sound stage, built during World War II and later home to
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