Cino Del Duca

Cino Del Duca
Cino Del Duca
	Cino Del Duca, at center with glass
Born	25 July 1899; Montedinove, Italy
Died	24 May 1967 (aged 67); Milan, Italy

Cino Del Duca (25 July 1899 – 24 May 1967) was an Italian-born businessman, film producer, and philanthropist who moved to France in 1923, where he made a fortune in the French publishing business.

Biography

Cino Del Duca Born in

Nazis earned him the Croix de Guerre

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Del Duca began with a small printing shop in Paris and eventually expanded into various publishing businesses. After World War II, he founded a weekly magazine Grand Hotel in 1947.^[1] He also established the Franc Tireur in 1949 and the Paris-Journal in 1957. Two years later he merged the two as the morning tabloid Paris-Jour that proved successful in a highly competitive, and at the time, overly saturated, Paris newspaper market.^[2] He built a publishing empire in France anchored by a series of very successful magazines such as Nous Deux, Télé Poche (founded 1966),^[1] Modes de Paris, Les Editions mondiales and others. His companies published journals such as Hurrah! (1935–1953) and L'Aventureux (1936–1942) plus through his agency Mondial Presse he acquired the French language publishing rights to English language comic strips and series such as Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. As well, his book publishing company, Éditions Mondiales Del Duca, was also very successful. Under the name of World Editions, the New York company office founded the magazine Fascination, which was a heavy loss, and in 1951 a famous

digest-size science fiction magazine, Galaxy Science Fiction.^[3]

In 1952 Del Duca established La Bourse Del Duca that awarded a medallion and a cash prize to support first-time authors.

In 1954, Cino Del Duca entered the motion picture production business. Between then and 1962 he helped finance and produce eight feature films including 1960's acclaimed

L'avventura

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Cino Del Duca expanded his media empire into the

stallion

Prince Bio was the country's leading sire.