the Extra-Terrestrial, and 1993's Jurassic Park. Later, the studio had massive successes with three Steven Spielberg movies, 1975's Jaws, 1982's E.T. Alfred Hitchcock also spent the last decade and a half of his career making films for Universal. The studio’s fortunes dipped in the following decades, though it had several hits with stars like Abbott and Costello, James Stewart, and Lana Turner. In fact, the original president of Universal, Carl Laemmle, was the first movie executive to give actors on-screen credit, which eventually led to popular performers becoming box office draws.īeginning in the 1920s and continuing through the 1930s and the early 1940s, Universal had great success with its monster films with movies like Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), and The Wolf Man (1941). Universal is the oldest American film studio. Highest-Grossing Film: Jurassic World (2015)
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