A look at the careers of some of these men and women reveals several ways in which this power was acquired and executed. The following pages are not intended as comprehensive career surveys but do seek to indicate how some of the main creative issues of the day were addressed by a number of the industry's most prominent figures.
Most of these examples are drawn from the ranks of directors, and it is useful to understand what comparative value their employers placed on their services. In November 1926, Paul Kohner, then a producer at Universal, prepared a confidential memorandum for the company's president, Carl Laemmle. Kohner had been asked to compile a listing of "the most important directors and the salaries they are getting ." He used whatever confidential sources were available to him within the industry in producing the accompanying list, which leaves blanks for those figures of which he was uncertain. Note that the list does not consider such directors as Griffith or DeMille who worked for their own companies, or Murnau and von Sternberg who were not yet established in Hollywood.
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