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The House That Shadows Built

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1931•47m

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.

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(archive footage)

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Sarah Bernhardt

(archive footage)

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Lon Chaney

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Miriam Hopkins

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Sylvia Sidney

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Gloria Swanson

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Clara Bow

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Ruth Chatterton

(archive footage)

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Maurice Chevalier

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Claudette Colbert

(archive footage)

Photo of Betty Compson

Betty Compson

(archive footage)

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Robert Coogan

(archive footage)

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Douglas Fairbanks

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William S. Hart

(archive footage)

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Phillips Holmes

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