Hollywood, in Hollywood: Paramount is the last major movie studio still in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 as Famous Players by Adolph Zukor, it is also the oldest of the Los Angeles studios, beating Universal by a month. The mountain in the logo is just a drawing of a mountain, although some claim it was based on Ben Lomond in Utah, which a studio exec knew as a boy. The logo usually has 22 stars.

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