Kilner jar The company was forced to close down to convert to gas furnaces and struggled along for a 66 years despite 3,000 people losing their jobs. In 1937, there was a bankruptcy sale, in which the patent rights to the "Kilner Jar" were sold to the United Glass Bottle company along with the rights to the very similar "Mason" jar that had also been made by Kilner. In 2003, The Rayware Group purchased the design, patent and trademark of the original Kilner jar and continues to produce them today in China. A more detailed history of the companies by the Society
Hugh S. Fowler was not until eight years after Monroe's death that Fowler won his Oscar, for the movie "Patton" (1970). His final movie, "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" (1972), was directed by John Huston. Fowler died in California three years later. Fowler is remembered for editing primarily Twentieth theatrical releases directed by freelancers, including Howard Hawks ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), Franklin J. Schaffner ("Planet of the Apes" (1968), "Patton"), Frank Tashlin ("Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957)) and Billy Wilder ("The Seven Year Itch"). Hugh S. Fowler Hugh S. Fowler (July 24, 1912 in Missouri – August 2, 1975 in