20 Facts About Jules Brulatour

Pierre Ernest Jules Brulatour was a pioneering executive figure in American silent cinema.

Jules Brulatour was a founder of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, later known as Universal Pictures.

Jules Brulatour was born in New Orleans on 7 April 1870 to Thomas and Marie Mossy Brulatour.

Jules Brulatour's grandfather Pierre Ernest Brulatour was a wine importer from Bordeaux.

Jules Brulatour moved to New York City in 1898 to work for the Manhattan Optical Co.

Jules Brulatour accepted and his long association as head of distribution for Eastman Kodak began.

Jules Brulatour was an advisor and producer for the French-based Eclair Film Company, which opened in 1911 an extensive, state-of-the-art studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, then the center of the burgeoning American movie industry.

Jules Brulatour's mistress proved herself a marketable screen personality, especially as a comedian in such popular one-reelers as Miss Masquerader and Love Finds a Way.

The movie, produced by Jules Brulatour, was the first of many cinematic and theatrical productions about the sinking.

Jules Brulatour produced the first newsreel about the Titanic disaster.

Meantime, Jules Brulatour had teamed up again with Carl Laemmle to form the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, later known as Universal Pictures.

In 1914 Jules Brulatour funded the construction of larger studios for Peerless Pictures at Fort Lee as well as the rebuilding of Eclair's processing laboratory, storage vault and offices, which had burned, destroying negatives for almost all the firm's films made over the last three years.

Jules Brulatour helped form another studio at Fort Lee, Paragon Films, for which he built a large facility specifically for the on-site production of Eastman stock.

Jules Brulatour chiefly conferred with the group's War Cooperation Subcommittee, which networked with the US government for the promotion of public welfare and propaganda films.

The next year Jules Brulatour was invited to join the film division of President Wilson's Committee on Public Information, but this appointment was less fruitful.

Arguments and financial troubles arose almost immediately, and allegations flew of undue influence from media baron William Randolph Hearst and even of bribes from Jules Brulatour; nothing was proven but he resigned under pressure.

Jules Brulatour was allotted alimony and permitted the use of the Brulatour name.

Jules Brulatour's new wife was starlet Hope Hampton, a Texas-born beauty queen who was just beginning in movies.

Jules Brulatour and Hope were opening night regulars on Broadway; she especially was a magnet for press attention.

Jules Brulatour died on 26 October 1946 in Mount Sinai Hospital after an illness that lasted several weeks.