Aubrey Solomon

The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935

A History and Filmography

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1929, Hollywood mogul William Fox (1879-1952) came close to controlling the entire motion picture industry. His Fox Film Corporation had grown from a $1600 investment into a globe-spanning $300 million empire; he also held patents to the new sound-on-film process. Forced into a series of bitter power struggles, Fox was ultimately toppled from his throne, and the studio bearing his name would merge in 1935 with Darryl F. Zanuck's flourishing 20th Century Pictures. The 25-year lifespan of the Fox Film Corporation, home of such personalities as Theda Bara, Tom Mix, Janet Gaynor and John Ford, is chronicled in this thorough illustrated history. Included are never-before-published financial figures revealing costs and grosses of Fox's biggest successes and failures, and a detailed filmogaphy of the studio's 1100-plus releases, among them What Price Glory?, Seventh Heaven and the Oscar-winning Cavalcade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781476666006
• ISBN-10: 1476666008
• Artikelnr.: 44563819

Autorenporträt

Aubrey Solomon is a writer/producer whose television credits include The Fall Guy, Cagney and Lacey and RoboCop. He has appeared in dozens of documentaries and is co-author of The Films of Twentieth Century-Fox (1989).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface
1 Introduction
5 Part I.
History
9
1.
Humble Beginnings
9
2.
The Birth of Fox
19
3.
A Major Player
37
4.
Stability
50
5.
Consolidation
68
6.
The Rise of Win
eld Sheehan
81
7.
Talking Pictures
95
8.
The Golden Age of Fox Films
112
9.
The Fall of William Fox
122 10.
Boom to Bust
134 11.
Turmoil
156 12.
Back from the Abyss
170 13.
A Tour of the Studio
182 14.
Survival
186 15.
20th Century Pictures
204 16.
After the Merger
217 Part II.
Filmography
227 Chapter Notes
361 Bibliography
367 Index
369