Each studio had exclusive contracts with actors and directors owned the theaters where their movies played worked with each other to control how movies were shown in independent theaters and, in some cases, owned the companies that processed the film. The major studios had a near-monopoly on the movie business in the United States. The case had roots dating back to 1921, when concerns first arose about the studios and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Paramount on May 4, 1948, finding that the studios had violated anti-trust laws, in a devastating blow to five major studios and three smaller ones. In the end, the Court ruled in United States v.
Hollywood’s greatest drama took place over two decades in a fight that featured movie barons, President Franklin Roosevelt, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, and the United States Supreme Court. Today marks the anniversary of an important Supreme Court case that helped to end the Hollywood studio system and fuel a young television industry in the late 1940s.
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