THE PARAMOUNT PICTURE

To celebrate its 100th birthday, Paramount Pictures assembled 116 of the greatest talents ever to work at the studio. Aw, look: it's those cute kids from Love Story top and center! Indiana Jones and Jack Dawson must be in here somewhere...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the storied Paramount Pictures, the only studio to still call Hollywood (the L.A. neighborhood, not the state of mind) its home. Founded in 1912 as the Famous Players Film Company, it more than lived up to its billing, claiming silent greats such as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, and Rudolph Valentino, not to mention Cecil B. DeMille, who made all his biblical epics for the studio. With the advent of talkies, and showing a special flair for sophisticated comedy, Paramount added another glittering array of stars to its roster, including Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, and writer-director Preston Sturges. In the postwar years, directors Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, and Jerry Lewis applied their craft at Paramount.

By the early 60s, like the other studios, Paramount was running out of steam, until wild man Charlie Bluhdorn bought it, in 1966, ushering in a new golden age under production chief Bob Evans, whose hits included Love Story, the first two Godfathers, and Chinatown. Next up was Barry Diller, who, with the help of Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, turned Paramount into the pre-eminent "high concept" blockbuster factory, releasing cash cows such as the Indiana Jones pictures and a string of hits starring fresh faces such as Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy. Sumner Redstone's Viacom bought the studio in 1994. Under studio head Sherry Lansing, the company entered yet another new era, producing bigger and riskier hits such as Titanic, Braveheart, and Forrest Gump, all of which won best-picture Oscars. Brad Grey succeeded her in 2005, and he's doing O.K., too, having produced 8 out of Paramount's 10 top-grossing pictures of all time.

PETER BISKIND

PARAMOUNT KEY, PAGES 109-111

1. Tommy Chong

2. Billy Bob Thornton

3. Dana Carvey

4. Patton Oswalt

5. Josh Brolin

6. Frances Fisher

7. Felicity Jones

8. Karl Urban

9. Anton Yelchin

10. Richard Gere

11. Bruce Greenwood

12. Mike White

13. Garry Marshall

14. Billy Dee Williams

15. Ernest Borgnine

16. Julianne Moore

17. Ed Harris

18. GeorgeTakei

19. John Cho

20. George Clooney

21. Dakota Fanning

22. Amy Heckerling

23. James Caan

24. Molly Ringwald

25. Adam Sandler

26. Bruce Dern

27. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

28. Andy Garcia

29. Simon Pegg

30. Jon Cryer

31. MarleeMatlin

32. Chris Rock

33. Robert De Niro

34. Kirk Douglas

35. Zachary Quinto

36. Zoe Saldana

37. Peter Bogdanovich

38. Emile Hirsch

39. Julianne Hough

40. Don Cheadle

41. Shirley MacLaine

42. Robert Evans

43. Chris Pine

44. Kate Hudson

45. Glenn Close

46. Charlize Theron

47. Oliver Stone

48. Dustin Hoffman

49. Eva Marie Saint

50. Harrison Ford

51. Patrick Stewart

52. Steven Spielberg

53. Sumner Redstone

54. Sir Ben Kingsley

55. Jennifer Beals

56. Sacha Baron Cohen

57. Jack Nicholson

58. Ryan O'Neal

59. Natalie Portman

60. Meryl Streep

61. Jerry Lewis

62. Ali MacGraw

63. Claire Danes

64. Brad Grey

65. Martin Scorsese

66. MarkWahlberg

67. Eddie Murphy

68. Jason Reitman

69. Brad Bird

70. Brad Pitt

71. Sean Penn

72. Philippe Dauman

73. William Shatner

74. David Fincher

75. Leonardo DiCaprio

76. Tom Cruise

77. J.J. Abrams

78. Kevin Costner

79. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

80. John Landis

81. Cameron Diaz

82. NickNolte

83. Mickey Rooney

84. Ivan Reitman

85. David Chase

86. Bud Cort

87. Michael York

88. Jamie Bell

89. Johnny Knoxville

90. Shia LaBeouf

91. Morgan Freeman

92. Elle Fanning

93. Justin Bieber

94. Jane Fonda

95. Davis Guggenheim

96. Barbra Streisand

97. John Travolta

98. Anna Kendrick

99. Robert Downey Jr.

100. Christopher Lloyd

101. Tyrese Gibson

102. Olivia Newton-John

103. Jon Favreau

104. Demi Moore 10 5. Tony Scott

106. Antonio Banderas

107. Melanie Griffith

108. Paula Patton

109. GoreVerbinski

110. Megan Fox

111. Scott Glenn

112. Katie Featherston

113. Jamie Lee Curtis

114. Paul Rudd

115. Jack Black

116. David Lynch