Columbia Pictures Corporation - 1960's dated American Film Production Studio Stock Certificate

General Stock. Motion Picture Co. Great classic vignette of the Columbia standing female figure with rays and clouds. Available in Brown or Purple. Please specify color.

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film studio and production entity that operates as part of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, which is a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese multinational corporation Sony. The origins of what would later be known as Columbia Pictures trace back to the establishment of the Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation on June 19, 1918, by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn along with their business associate, Joe Brandt. The company adopted the name Columbia Pictures in 1924, functioning as Columbia Pictures Corporation until 1968, and it went public two years later. The studio eventually incorporated the image of Columbia, the female embodiment of the United States, as its emblem.

In its formative years, Columbia was a relatively minor entity in Hollywood; however, it began to expand in the late 1920s, largely due to a fruitful collaboration with director Frank Capra. Under Capra's direction and with the contributions of others, Columbia emerged as a leading studio for screwball comedies. During the 1930s, the studio's prominent contract stars included Jean Arthur and Cary Grant. In the 1940s, Rita Hayworth rose to prominence as the studio's leading star, significantly enhancing its success into the late 1950s. Other notable stars associated with the studio included Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, and William Holden.