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...example Hal Wallis, onetime production boss at Warner Brothers, had made a deal to use Paramount's studio facilities for his independent productions, and sold Paramount some stock. Hal Wallis did not collapse his corporations after every picture. But some of those set up by Leo Spitz, of International Pictures, Inc., (which grossed $24,000,000 on its first six productions) were suspect...
...running 20th Century-Fox while Darryl Zanuck was a colonel in the Army. After making the Academy Award picture, The Song of Bernadette, Goetz quit in a huff when Zanuck returned and began acting like a "little colonel" around the studio. Goetz approached dark, dapper Leo Spitz, 57, Hollywood's legal and financial know-it-all. A boy wonder (he earned his Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees before he was 21), Spitz masterminded the reorganization of both RKO and Paramount when they were on the rocks...
Under their deal with Rank, the present International Pictures, Inc. will be dissolved, a new International Pictures Corp. formed. It will be owned by Spitz (board chairman), Goetz (president) and Universal, will have $10,000,000 in U.S. operating capital...
Independent producers, however high-minded or mercenary their motives, seldom manage much of a splash, whether cerebral or boxoffice. International, founded by 20th Century-Fox's longtime general efficiency expert, William Goetz, and veteran cinelawyer Leo Spitz, onetime president of R.K.O. is an exception. Its first picture is the most propitious independent debut since David O. Selznick...
...often happens in personal crises, Joe Grew's large distress was accompanied by small discomforts. The Japanese had allowed no dogs on the Asama Maru and the Ambassador had been obliged to leave behind his four-year companion Sasha, a white spitz...