Word: sheehan
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Married. Maria Jeritza, 41, Austrian opera singer, longtime prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, divorced wife of Baron Leopold von Popper de Podhragy of Hungary; and Winfield Richard ("Winnie") Sheehan, 51, onetime New York World police reporter, long-time (1926-35) vice president of Fox Films in charge of production until his recent resignation (TIME,, July 29); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...elsewhere. Hollywood long ago chose "amicable settlement" as an apt phrase to describe the results, whatever these may be, of all such events. Two months ago when Producers Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck took their lively Twentieth Century Pictures away from United Artists to merge with Fox, where Winfield Sheehan has been vice president in charge of production since 1926, it was immediately clear that an amicable settlement of major proportions was at hand. Last week it arrived. After chats with Producer Schenck and Fox President Sidney Kent, Winfield Sheehan announced that he had tendered his resignation. Said Mr. Kent...
Born in 1883, a onetime New York World reporter who got into the cinema business in 1914, Producer Sheehan was right-hand man to William Fox when that ambitious onetime garment worker was building up his topheavy theatre chain. When Fox was ousted, fat, jolly Producer Sheehan remained, on such good terms with Mr. Fox's enemies that, instead of losing his job as the studio's production head, he held it through two reorganizations. In 1932, when he had the nervous breakdown which is often another Hollywood euphemism for an ousting, it looked as if Producer Sheehan...
That last week's settlement might really have been amicable was indicated by the terms revealed. Producer Sheehan kept his fat block of Fox stock, got something like $360,000 for his contract which had 14 months to run. In the new regime at Fox-henceforth to be called Twentieth Century-Fox-Producer Zanuck will have Producer Sheehan's old job as Production Chief, direct studio operations under the nominal control of President Kent...
...release its productions. The split between Twentieth Century and United Artists started when Sam Goldwyn, who had been United Artists' No. 1 producer, decided that the new company was getting more than its share of attention. On the Fox lot, where Producer Schenck's good friend Winfield Sheehan is production chief but where Jesse L. Lasky and others have been making independent pictures for Fox release for the last two years. Twentieth Century will function much as it has in the past. With a better score of hits than any other comparable organization in the industry, its autumn...