Phillips, Daniel Gilbert, John Emshwiller and Ann Zimmerman contributed to this article.

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In a research note Wednesday, he recounts how four living chief executives at the party, Bob Baldwin, Parker Gilbert, John Mack and James Gorman, spoke about the importance of the partnership culture to the firm.

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Dujardin, with a pencil mustache, looks a little like John Gilbert, but his cavorting star is meant to be a Fairbanks equivalent.

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The most acute reference, however, is to John Gilbert a top lion at M-G-M in the mid-twenties but dead within a decade, liquidated by drink and the lethal demands of speech.

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Even major films occasionally dot the lineup like the deliciously sadistic "Gaslight" (1944), for which Ingrid Bergman won her first Oscar, or Erich von Stroheim's masterly silent version of "The Merry Widow" (1925), starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert.

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