Word: schencks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invited to Suite No. 31 in the tall tower of Manhattan's Hotel Sherry-Netherland one day last week were picked representatives of the U. S. and British Press. Their host was Joseph Michael Schenck, massive, imperturbable board chairman of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. To each newshawk Mr. Schenck handed, not a highball in the Hollywood tradition, but a formal statement confirming the biggest cinema deal of the year. Then Mr. Schenck plunked himself down in the centre of a divan, flanked by the two other principals in the triple play: his younger brother and competitor, President Nicholas...
...Joseph Schenck's centre position on the divan was appropriate. When he took his Twentieth Century Pictures and his ace producer, Darryl Zanuck, to Fox Film last year, he found Fox in possession of 49% voting interest in a holding company which controlled Gaumont-British. With 450 theatres and the best production in the Empire, Gaumont is the biggest factor in British cinema. The Fox interest in Gaumont-British was picked up by William Fox in 1929 for about $20,000,000, a purchase which later played a large part in toppling the silvery Fox pyramid about Founder...
Through United Artists Corp., a group of cinema prima donnas market their own pictures. Last United Artists' president able to keep the peace inside that concern was another prima donna, Joseph Schenck. Last year he quit to take his own Twentieth Century Pictures and Producer Darryl Zanuck to Fox. Sales Manager Al Lichtman was moved up to president, speedily quarreled with Producer Sam Goldwyn over the marketing of Barbary Coast, resigned. Prima Donna Mary Pickford took over as provisional president. Last week United Artists owners-Miss Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin and British Producer Alexander Korda...
When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
Lichtman. The ups-and-downs of United Artists this year started in June when Darryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures left the lot to merge with Fox, taking United Artists' President Joe Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures...