J. Arthur Rank but continued to handle all distribution for the Rank organisation until 1955, when it was renamed J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors. In 1939 Rank consolidated his film production interests in both the Pinewood Film Studios and the Denham Film Studios. In 1938 Rank bought the Odeon Cinemas chain. and the Amalgamated Studios in Elstree, although the latter were never used as film studios by Rank. In 1941, it absorbed the Gaumont British, which owned 251 cinemas, and the Lime Grove Studios, (later owned by the BBC) and bought the Paramount Cinemas chain, so that by 1942 the Rank Organisation owned
Cherokee Studios location, and an additional three studios at a satellite location acquired on Beverly Drive (formerly Lion Share/ABC Dunhill Records). The Robb family lived in Chatsworth with Del Shannon as a neighbor. The three brothers had a struggling band called "The Robbs". After a while their father, Dave, told them that if they did not get any more gigs they would have to get real jobs. When Shannon heard this he told them they should open a recording studio in their barn and loaned them money for the board. After logging time in countless studios across the country as a band,