Word: foxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian-born Joe Schenck was one of the somebodies-and he has made much more than a million. He controls an estimated $50 million worth of theaters and a big chunk of stock in 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., which he and Darryl Zanuck formed...
Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...
Last week, the grand old man resigned as production chief of Fox, now will spend all his time on his 364 theaters. Although Fox President Spyros P. Skouras refused the resignation, it was almost sure to go through. Joe's move was in preparation for a Government antitrust order which is expected to direct Fox to divorce its production and distribution activities from its theater operations...
...Though Fox was still dickering with the Government, it was getting ready for the split-up itself. Fox's Al Lichtman, a hard-knuckled distribution expert, had drafted a plan to get Fox a bigger slice of the box-office receipts...
...Belvedere Goes to College (20th Century-Fox) gives Clifton Webb a chance to go on playing the comedy role that turned last year's Sitting Pretty into a smash box-office hit. Mr. Belvedere is no longer a babysitter, but he is still insufferably and hilariously patronizing; he is still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur...