Pine-Thomas Productions was a prolific B-picture unit of Paramount Pictures from 1940–1957, producing 81 films. Co-producers William H. Pine (February 15, 1896 – April 29, 1955) and William C. Thomas (August 11, 1903 – April 2, 1984) were known as the "Dollar Bills" because none of their economically made films ever lost money.[1][2][3] "We don't want to make million dollar pictures," they said. "We just want to make a million dollars."[4]
- ^ Dick, Bernard F. (2001). Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood, University Press of Kentucky, p. 33
- ^ John Payne – the Star Who Likes People: When He Isn't Making a Picture He's Out Meeting the Public and Winning Friends for Hollywood and for Himself. Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune 14 Sep 1952: c2.
- ^ 'Senile celluloid': Independent exhibitors, the major studios and the fight over feature films on television, 1939-1956
Pierce, David. Film History; Sydney Vol. 10, Iss. 2, (1998): 141-164.
- ^ William Paine, Filmmaker New York Times 30 Apr 1955: 17.