Skouras
Americannoun
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The completely magnificent St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral also has a Hollywood story: The immigrant Skouras brothers, Charles, Spyros and George, had lost their theater-company fortune in the Depression.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2021
During World War II, Berlin was painted over, replaced by Athens in a nod to then studio chief Spyros Skouras.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2019
They spent a year renovating it from there, using Los Angeles-based designer Marjorie Skouras for much of the furniture and fabrics.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2016
And while there is some unexplained back story between Winter and Skouras, most of the narrative turns out to consist of long, elaborate chase scenes as Tate and Bo keep narrowly slipping past their pursuers.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2014
But, to everyone's delight, the lawyers claimed that the CinemaScope-type lens �which Skouras had personally purchased only last December from Henri Chr�tien, a Frenchman who invented it back in 1931�did not belong exclusively to Fox.
From Time Magazine Archive
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