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| Hollywood Trend: Spectacle is the Star |
 Lloyd Shearer, August 24, 1974. "... [The Poseidon Adventure was a cornball movie devised from a cornball script, so hackneyed in fact that 20th Century-Fox had second thoughts about it and reluctantly came up with only $2.8 million of the $4.8 million required to complete the production. The film's producer, Irwin Allen, had to seek out Steve Broidy and Sherrill Corwin for $2 million in finish money. Broidy used to head Monogram Pictures, producers of low-budget films, and Corwin owns more theaters than you care to count. The Poseidon Adventure cost $4.8 million to produce. To date it has grossed worldwide an astronomical $162 million. Fox's profit share after negative costs, prints, advertising, and distribution will approach $20 million. Allen, Broidy, and Corwin should split an equal amount. ..." |
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| Poverty Row |
| Hollywood Renegades Archive. "... The president of Allied Artists was Steve Broidy who headed IMPPA, the Independent Motion Picture Producers Association -- the organization that served as the independent-distributor equivalent of SIMPP. ..." |
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| Wikipedia: Steve Broidy |
| "Samuel 'Steve' Broidy (14 June 1905 - 28 April 1991) was an American executive in the U.S. motion picture industry. Broidy was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He and went on to attend Boston University and entered the film industry as a salesman with the Franklin Film Company in 1925... He remained President of Monogram until 1965, when he left to form his own company, Motion Pictures International. As an independent, Broidy produced Good Times (Columbia), The Fox (Claridge Pictures, 1967), and 80 Steps to Jonah (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1969). He also produced, uncredited, The Poseidon Adventure in 1972. An active philanthropist, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1962, and was Founding Life Chairman of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. ..." |
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