Rita Hayworth, Lucille Ball, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts are some of the powerful names who have starred in Columbia Pictures movies since the studio was founded in 1918.

Starship Troopers is getting a new interpretation from filmmaker Neill Blomkamp, coming soon from Columbia Pictures.

From “Hollywood on the Line,” which appeared in the January 1984 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year ...