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Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
American film distributor and production company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Billy Graham's film production company, see World Wide Pictures. For the UK company, see World Wide Pictures (UK).
Sono Art-World Wide Pictures was an American film distribution and production company in operation from 1927 to 1933.[1] Their first feature film was The Rainbow Man (1929), while one of their most prominent was The Great Gabbo (1929) starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze for James Cruze Productions, Inc.[2] One of the last films distributed by the company was A Study in Scarlet (1933) starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes.
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Quick Facts Company type, Industry ...
Company type | Film Production |
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Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 1927 |
Founder | W. Ray Johnston |
Defunct | 1933 |
Fate | Merged with Allied Pictures into Monogram Pictures |
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Sono Art was the original U.S. distributor for four Alfred Hitchcock-directed films, Downhill (1927), Easy Virtue (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929), as well as the British Anna May Wong vehicle Piccadilly (1929).