First Artists annual report

Cover of First Artists annual report to stockholders for 1977.

Tidbits from the report:

"This last fiscal year was the best of times for First Artists. In the past year, we have had in release one of the top twenty domestic film grossers of all time, A STAR IS BORN. STAR and Barbra Streisand's magic name produced the bulk of our earnings."

An interesting sidenote. First Artists was making development deals for television at the time. One of them is quite interesting.

"First Artists, in conjunction with ABC, is involved with the development of a comedy show called HOUSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR. The plot revolves around a duly elected President of the United States who happens to be black. It is a warm, contemporary, highly original show."