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FEBRUARY 2017

CBS STUDIO CENTER – A HISTORY LESSON by JUDI MILLER

The year was 1926 and plans for a city in stages and several more support buildings. the were in development. The Studio was known as the most efficient It began with the purchase of a 50-acre lettuce of the independent studios because of its high ranch at the corner of Colfax Avenue and quality technical equipment, expert use of stock , along with a 300-acre footage, superior editing facilities and high ranch located on Laurel Canyon. During this caliber craftsmen. Between 1937 and 1950, time “King of Comedy” , known Republic’s output grew from features a year for his two reelers and the Keystone Kops, to over fifty, and the number of sound stages was looking for a new studio location. A deal tripled. Some of the legends to grace the was struck, and in 1928 Mack Sennett Studios lot included , , Slim opened and the surrounding area became known Pickens, Allen “Rocky” Lane, Joan Crawford as Studio City. At this time, the Studio consisted and Barbara Stanwyck. With the advent of of two sound stages, one with a swimming in the early 1950’s, Republic entered pool below the floor, the other with a two-story a new medium and produced a number of series, dressing room building attached; one office such as , Burke’s Law, Leave it to building, projection room, film editing building, Beaver, and . film library, wardrobe building, and a garage. In May of 1963 the CBS Television Network With the advent of sound in 1929, Sennett was entered into an agreement with Republic Studios the first producer to use RCA equipment, with whereby CBS became the major lessee and the which he produced a bunch of singing short facility was renamed CBS Studio Center. During subject with a young unknown named this era, many well known television series such Fire, , , Evening Bing Crosby. During the next several years, as Rawhide, , The Great Adventure, Shade, and are just a few Sennett made more than 150 one and two reel Gilligan’s Island, and My of the shows which called CBS Studio Center feature films, and also produced and directed Three Sons called CBS Studio Center home. home during the 90’s. Features such as Father four films for Paramount distribution starring In 1969 a then unknown production of the Bride 2, Dr. Doolittle, and I Love Trouble W.C. Fields; The Dentist, The Pharmacist, The company, MTM , moved in and were also filmed on the Studio lot at that time. Barber Shop, and The Fatal Glass of Beer. became an important tenant, producing such hit As we approached the year 2000 and moved In 1933 the Great Depression forced Sennett shows as The Show, , forward, CBS Studio Center kept going strong into bankruptcy, and the Studio became an The Bob Show, , and The with long term hit shows such as Will & Grace, independent production facility. Mascot White Shadow. , Bernie Mac, According Pictures, under the direction of , In 1982 CBS and 20th Century to Jim, That 70’s Show, Just Shoot Me, , became one of the principle tenants and for the Corporation formed a joint venture which Big Brother, CSI: NY, and more recently, Hot next two years the Studio was known as Mascot included ownership and operation of CBS in Cleveland, Last Man Standing, , Studios. Mascot produced the Saturday matinee Studio Center, and for the first time in almost Nine Nine, and . serial which always ended with the heroine twenty years a new name appeared on the sign Moreover, the Studio continues to grow left tied to the railroad tracks as a speeding above the main gate, CBS/Fox Studios. Two and change. In 2005 construction on The train came hurtling toward her, interrupted years later, Fox sold its interest in the Studio Broadcast Center began and in 2007 KCBS and by “CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.” Some of to MTM Enterprises and the facility became KCAL9 moved in, followed shortly thereafter Mascot’s big stars included, , Bela CBS/MTM Studios. Shows produced on the by the CBS corporate departments. Our most Lugosi, Gabby Hayes, and . lot during the 1980’s included , A recent addition is the Lagoon Building, which In 1935 , Different World, , St. Elsewhere, provides 30,000 square feet of office space for and Consolidated Film Industries, financed Newhart, , and Falcon Crest. productions and corporate entities. And we’re by Herbert J. Yates, joined with several other CBS acquired MTM’s interest in the Studio not done building yet………….stay tuned for independent producers and became known as in 1992 and once again the CBS Studio Center more details! Republic Studios. By then there were six sound sign appeared at the gate. , Grace Under n n n 1 PRODUCTION SCHEDULE ADR...... 5091 Backlot Services...... 5667 Carla’s Café Commissary...... 5692 Car Wash...... 5042 Client Services...... 5099 People’s Choice Awards CPR & First Aid Training (monthly) . . .5256 Winners Emergency Line...... 5555 Graphics...... 5395 Favorite Cable TV Comedy Grip Dept...... 5711 Hair Salon ...... 6000 Baby Daddy Health Wheels...... 818.876.4755 House Internet Access...... 5218 Favorite Actor In A New TV Series Janitorial ...... 5966 Matt LeBlanc – Man With A Plan Joe’s Gym ...... 5099 Lighting ...... 5349 Medical ...... 5341 Favorite New TV Comedy Notary Public Services Man with a Plan -Brandt Bowers (1st Flr. Mack Sennett). . .5162 The Great Indoors (CBS TV Studios/CBS) n n n Parking...... 5165 Parking Place Signs...... 5670 Solutrean Feature Paint Dept...... 5396/5858 (Solutre, LLC) Safety & Environmental Concerns. . .4444 Lip Sync Battle Safety Hotline (anonymous reporting). . .6078 (Highway Content/Spike TV) ongratulationsongratulations Sign Shop ...... 5395 PHOTO: ABC/John Fleenor © 2015 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. ABC/John Fleenor © 2015 PHOTO: C Special Effects...... 5671 John Idoni, A/V (CBS TV Distribution/Syndication) Supply Station...... 5001 Department Take 5 Coffee Shop ...... 5979 The Insider (CBS TV Distribution/Syndication) On your retirement after Telephones...... 4800 42 years of services at RECYCLING Last Man Standing HH we no longer recycle videotape, cds or dvds HH (20th Century Fox TV/ ABC) CBS and CBS Studio Center. 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Please observe the speed limit (8mph), stop Jason Hilmer, signs and pedestrian crossings. The Studio Transportation FEBRUARY Department has the contractual right to refuse entrance to black history month any repeat violator of our Safety Rules. Studio and wife Heather Security strictly enforces this policy. n2 Groundhog Day On the birth of your daughter 12 Lincoln’s Birthday n Brooklyn Diane n 14 Valentine’s Day January 23 n n n n n n n 20 President’s Day (observed) and big brother Contributing Editor Marsha Gorodkin Carter NewsletterDesign Elizabeth Gulick Staff n 28 Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras) 2 FEBRUARY 2017 In Memoriam MARY TYLER MOORE SHE TURNED THE WORLD ON WITH HER SMILE!

by JUDI MILLER film Ordinary People, in which she portrayed and later in 1982 when their company had On January 25th we a true television pioneer the bitter matriarch of a family who recently ownership in the Studio. and icon. Mary Tyler Moore was best known lost their son in a drowning accident. She for her comedic roles as Laura Petrie on The also received a Tony® Award that year for her In later years, Mary Tyler Moore returned Show in the 60’s, and later as the role in the Broadway play Whose Life Is It to CBS Studio Center time and again, guest indomitable, groundbreaking Mary Richards on Anyway? starring in The Naked Truth in 1997, That The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was filmed 70’s Show (also filmed on Stage 2), and most here on Stage 2 from 1970-1977, and became a In addition to being a renowned actress, Ms. recently joining her old cast mate fixture on the CBS network. She was nominated Tyler Moore was a successful businesswoman on in 2011 and 2013. for a Best Actress Emmy® Award each of the seven as well. She and former husband years the show aired, and she won three times. formed MTM Enterprises which, as stated in Mary Tyler Moore was also an author, the CEO the “History Lesson” article on the first page, of JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund), In 1980 she displayed her dramatic skills, became a huge part of CBS Studio Center and an animal rights activist. earning an Academy Award® nomination for the in 1969, producing numerous hit shows, n n n In Memoriam Bonnie Tiegel Entertainment Tonight Senior Producer It is with tremendous sadness the Entertainment Off the lot, Bonnie was a tireless advocate Tonight family announces the death of Senior for women’s rights, both in the professional Producer Bonnie Tiegel, who passed on January realm as a mentor to young women and with her 23 while surrounded by family and friends in work with the YWCA of Greater , Los Angeles. where she campaigned to end domestic human sex trafficking. Bonnie was a mainstay of the show for , a four-time Emmy® winner who loved celebrity She will be deeply missed. Our thoughts and news and covered it with joy and verve. Her profound sympathies are with her husband, Eliot, exuberant personality will be profoundly missed her son, Kenny, and her three granddaughters. not only by those of us who worked with her daily, but by those who encountered her over the years on the red carpet, at awards shows and behind the scenes at every event that matters to the entertainment industry. Courtesy of Entertainment Tonight P hoto : Mathew Imaging/FilmMagic. Getty Images. 3 FEBRUARY 2017

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