Twentieth Century Pictures
Joseph Schenck Darryl F. Zanuck | |
Defunct | May 31, 1935 |
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Fate | Merged with Fox Film Corporation |
Successor | 20th Century-Fox (now 20th Century Studios) |
Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an
Samuel Goldwyn Studios.[3]
Schenck was President of Twentieth Century, while Zanuck was named Production Chief and Goetz and
Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1935, they produced the classic film Les Misérables, from Victor Hugo
's novel, which was also nominated for Best Picture.
In the winter of 1934, Zanuck began to negotiate with the UA board to acquire stock of the company and become a board member, but became outraged by UA's co-founder
D.W. Griffith. Schenck, who had been a UA stockholder for over ten years, resigned from United Artists in protest of the shoddy treatment of Twentieth Century, and Zanuck; thus began discussions with other distributors, which led to talks with the bankrupt Fox Studios of the Fox Film Corporation in the early spring of 1935. Fox Film had begun in the silent era in 1915 under founder William Fox
.
Twentieth Century Pictures of 1933 merged with Fox Studios in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox (the hyphen was dropped half a century later in 1985 under Australian Rupert Murdoch). For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary. However, in recent years it has now claimed the 1935 merger as its founding date.[5]
Films
References
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- ^ "The Formation of Twentieth Century-Fox". Cobbles. United States. Retrieved December 14, 2023.