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Richard A. Rowland

Richard
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Film producer, studio executive

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According to Wikipedia, Richard A. Rowland was an American studio executive and film producer. Career Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rowland was the head of Metro Pictures Corporation from 1915 to 1920, a studio he founded in 1915 along with Louis B. Mayer. Mayer left in 1918 to form his own studio. Metro did most of its productions in Los Angeles and in New York City, where it occasionally leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Among Metro's productions were: The Eternal Question with Olga Petrova, The Divorcée with Ethel Barrymore, and What People Will Say? directed by Alice Guy-Blache.

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