11 Facts About Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is an American film studio that produced mostly low-budget films between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

The original sprawling brick complex which functioned as home to both Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists remains at 4376 Sunset Drive, utilized as part of the Church of Scientology Media Center.

Monogram Pictures offered a selection of film genres, including action melodramas, classics, and mysteries.

In 1938, Monogram Pictures began a long and profitable policy of making series and hiring familiar players to star in them.

Monogram Pictures continued to experiment with film series with mixed results.

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Monogram tried to follow Dillinger immediately, and did achieve some success, but Monogram never became a respectable "major" studio like former poverty-row denizen Columbia Pictures.

Monogram Pictures filmed some of its later features in Cinecolor, mostly outdoor subjects like County Fair, Blue Grass of Kentucky, and The Rose Bowl Story, as well as the science-fiction film, Flight to Mars.

Monogram Pictures convinced Broidy that the days of low-budget films were ending, and in 1946 Monogram created a new unit, Allied Artists Productions, to make costlier films.

Mirisch's prediction about the end of the low-budget film had come true thanks to television, and in September 1952 Monogram Pictures announced that henceforth it would only produce films bearing the Allied Artists name.

Monogram Pictures followed suit, christening its TV arm as Interstate Television Corporation.

Monogram Pictures operated the Monogram Ranch, its movie ranch in Placerita Canyon near Newhall, California, in the northern San Gabriel Mountains foothills.