Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contest has already received enough publicity so that Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are sending their news cameramen to snap the listeners in action. There was also a possibility late last night that Fox Movie-tone would be on hand to record on a synchronized score the voices of the men and the music, as the phonographs grind...
Strong Boy (Fox). Full-length, light films which substitute character comedy for slapstick, and homely atmosphere for romantic, amuse and charm adult audiences but rarely do well at the boxoffice. John Ford, who directed Four Sons and The Iron Horse, has now had a lot of fun showing how a muscle-bound baggage smasher carved his way in the world. To Smasher Victor McLaglen's girl, "promotion" meant a white collar; to Smasher McLaglen it meant a job he liked. Told to pick his own job after he kept a trunk from falling on the daughter of a railroad...
Christina (Fox). Janet Gaynor is the first picture actress to suggest convincingly real, virginal youth. Her beautiful and delicate charm, made famous in Seventh Heaven, is now set to work in a pretty, painstaking, and rather inane film about a Dutch girl who falls in love with a circus performer, and, after difficulties, is united to him. Best shots-the Dutch village...
...Legit." As to the legitimate stage, Mr. Fox has undoubtedly corralled a large number of its outstanding luminaries, including Actors Will Rogers, George Jessel, Clark and McCullough, Helen Chandler, and Authors Zoe Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...
Pale, sharp-featured, Cineman Fox plasters his thin hair over his head to make it reach as far as possible. With a similar objective, but with greater success, he has recently expanded with purchase after purchase his enormous business organization. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, in 1879, he came, a small boy, to Manhattan's East Side, there peddled shoe polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were...