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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interloper. Meanwhile, coony oldtime Producer Sol Wurtzel, formerly 20th Century-Fox's nabob of the Bs, had an idea. Long ago he realized that what he lacked in high budgets and Washington connections could be made up in speed. He has already completed, for Fox release, a Nazi spy chase called Rendezvous 24. While not strictly an atom-bomb picture, it deals with German scientists who tried to blow up Paris by radio-controlled atomic energy. It may conceivably pass, in the sticks, for the veritable atomic gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Secret | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Eduardo saw that she sat at table with such cinema bigshots as Winfield Sheehan (then head of Fox), Sol Wurtzel, et al.-but only for a respectable minimum of time. This caution earned him the jeering nickname "Mama Cansino." But his tantalizing strictness worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: California Carmen | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Bing's future was summarized by coony Hollywood Producer Sol Wurtzel at the time Bing was singing at the Grove. Wurtzel noticed that Dixie Lee, one of his actresses on the Fox lot, seemed to be spending a lot of time with Bing, so he warned her: "Dixie, you'd better give that fellow up, because if you marry him, you'll have to support him for the rest of your life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Groaner | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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