Columbia Pictures, the movie studio with the “Torch Lady” logo, turns 100 this year. The former home of Frank Capra, Rita Hayworth, the Three Stooges, “Dr. Strangelove,” and “Tootsie ...

There have been minor tweaks over the decades - clouds were painted into the background in 1936, color was added in 1961 (hey, she's a redhead!) - but for the most part, Columbia's "Torch Lady ...

Columbia Pictures and its 100 years in business are celebrated at the Locarno Film Festival 2024, Locarno77, in Sony program The Lady With the Torch.

The Locarno retro, titled “The Lady With the Torch –– The Centenary of Columbia Pictures,” is being curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, co-director of Italy’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival ...

Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is set to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures with a retrospective featuring classic titles spawned by the Hollywood studio between the dawn of ...

An iconic woman needs an apt setting. So, to mark its 100th anniversary, Columbia Pictures has teamed with the Municipality of Cannes to put the studio’s instantly recognizable Torch Lady and ...

Khoshbakht added: “Lady with the Torch is an unofficial history of Columbia Pictures that celebrates big names, Oscar winners, and era-defining films but pays equal attention to the B-unit and ...

Look at all these Columbia films. We have three or four titles clocking in at two hours, but the majority are under 80 minutes, and they pack so much into the 65 minutes to 80 minutes.

Columbia Pictures’ 1992 Lady Liberty From 1976 to 1981, Columbia Pictures retired Lady Liberty from the screen. The logo was later rescued in 1982 after The Coca-Cola Company purchased the ...

A few years back someone discovered photos of Rose Edna Turiello, who worked for Columbia in the 1930s, draped in a toga and holding a torch. Her husband, James, had been a photographer.