Sunset Gower Studios is a television and movie studio at the corner of
Sunset Boulevard and
Gower Street in
Hollywood,
California. It continues today as Hollywood's largest independent studio and an active facility for television and film production on its twelve soundstages.
The studios were originally founded by
Columbia Pictures Studios movie mogul
Harry Cohn in 1921 in the
Poverty Row area of Hollywood. Poverty Row was the area bounded by Sunset Boulevard on the North, Gower Street on the West, and Beachwood Drive on the East.