Carl "Junior" Laemmle is known as the man who brought the Universal monsters to life. As producer of Universal Pictures he had actively pursued the filming of both Dracula and Frankenstein. The fruitful results of his quest made motion picture history and, at least for a time, bailed his movie studio out financially from impeding bankruptcy.
It was Junior's father, however, Carl Laemmle who was the mastermind behind the creation of the film studio and its subsequent metamorphosis into a Hollywood "city" of its own.
Here is "Uncle" Carl's story, told in the May 1931 issue of THE NEW MOVIE magazine. Laemmle, a Jewish immigrant from Germany, came to the US with little money in his pocket to build one of the most famous movie studios on the planet.
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