Columbia Pictures

Brothers Jack and Harry Cohn, along with their business partner Joe Brandt, founded the studio as CBC Film Sales Corporation. Two years later, the studio adopted the Columbia Pictures name and went public, adopting the Columbia Pictures Corporation name until 1968. The studio used the image of Columbia, the female personification of the US, as its logo. After being acquired by the Coca-Cola Company and then Sony Corporation of Japan, Columbia Pictures moved to the Irving Thalberg Building on the MGM Studios lot in 1990. Initially, the studio was a minor player in Hollywood, but grew in the late 1920s following successful collaborations with directors such as Frank Capra and Leo McCarey, who helped establish Columbia as a home for screwball comedies and other notable films.