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Fox Film Corp. Chairman Alan Hirschfield told TIME that Lansing had not been forced out, yet he did not sound dejected. "She came to me and said she had another opportunity, and she felt it was best for her and best for the company that she take it," said Hirschfield...
In her three years as the first female president of a major U.S. film studio, 20th Century-Fox Productions Chief Sherry Lansing, 38, has overseen exactly one big box-office hit: Porky's, a pickup from an independent film maker. But that commercial success was far outnumbered by such...
Lansing said that for legal reasons she could not talk about the opportunity for at least a month. There was speculation, all of it wrong, that she was headed for a top position in a new studio to be formed by CBS Inc., Time Inc.'s Home Box Office...
Lansing's appointment as the boss of Fox films was regarded as frivolous when it was announced in January 1980, a "figurehead" move, as another female film executive described it at the time. A former math teacher (in the racially tense Watts district of Los Angeles), Max Factor model...
At Fox, Lansing learned fast but was reportedly frustrated by insufficient authority to do her job as she saw fit. Said one acquaintance: "It was a very unhappy situation, which is not unusual in this business." She was overruled by superiors, for example, in her attempts to get Chariots of...