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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...
When Joseph Schenck and his Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox last June, the remaining owner-producers (Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks) hastily set about compensating for their loss. First, David O. Gelznick decided to leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, form his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists. Then Mary Pickford took for a partner Jesse Lasky (who was last week vastly disgruntled by news that M-G-M had contrived to beat him in signing a contract with aging Ernestine Schumann-Heink, whom he had already announced as a star...
...revealed last week when Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. registered two security issues with SEC. Fox stockholders had approved seven-year contracts calling for annual payments of approximately $200,000 to President Sidney R. Kent, $250,000 to Vice President Darryl Zanuck and $125,000 to Chairman Joseph M. Schenck. Total for the three is $575,000 a year, or nearly 50? a share on the common stock of the new company. When a Fox stockholder objected to these payments at a stockholders' meeting last fortnight, President Kent silenced him by shouting...