Word: schencks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists announced in Miami: "If Florida is on the alert, it will benefit to the extent of $150,000,000 a year on the film industry if Sinclair is elected." Not a whit of all this was lost on the campaign managers of Candidate Sinclair's opponents. But Wall Street was able to be amused as well as alarmed by what it called the "California-Here-I-Run" movement...
Married. Norma Talmadge, 36, cinemactress, recently divorced wife of Cinema Producer Joseph M. Schenck (TIME, April 23); and George Jessel, comedian; in Atlantic City...
Divorced. Norma Talmadge, 36, old-time cinemactress; from Producer Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists Corp.; after a six-year separation; in Juarez, Mexico. Questioned about the divorce Actor George Jessel, whose possible marriage to Miss Talmadge has been rumored by friends, said: "That's fine. . . . I think she's very nice...
Nicholas M. Schenck (Loew...
...noteworthy development since talkies. Unsympathetic to drawing room comedy, Cinderella romance, mechanical spectacle or pure pornography, Producer Zanuck likes to deal lightheartedly with episodic scenarios about lively, colorful plebeians-with James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, William Powell impersonating taxi-drivers, reporters, gamblers, shysters. When Zanuck left Warners, Producer Joe Schenck, who recently has been interested in horse racing at Agua Caliente, furnished Zanuck with cash to produce his pictures at United Artists' studio (like Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed...