On October 26, 2025, Vogue World: Hollywood will celebrate the rich conversation between film and fashion, centering the most inspiring characters in cinema history. The fashion and film tribute will take place on the Paramount Pictures Studios Lot in sunny Hollywood—one of the oldest film studios in the world and the last still headquartered in the famed Los Angeles district. In the lead-up, we’ve been poring over all the glamorous lore that surrounds Paramount Studios, from its early 20th-century origin story to the cast of legendary characters who graced both its lot and its films.

The front gate to Paramount Studios in the 1920s. Photo: Getty Images

The story of Paramount Studios begins, as many good stories do, with an underdog. Adolph Zukor was born in Hungary in 1873 and lost

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