Joseph Schenck

The California-based Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation formed after the merger of two companies Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935. Darryl F. Zanuck, Raymond Griffith, William Goetz and Joseph Schenck started the Twentieth Century Pictures in 1933 and founded the Fox Film Corporation was William Fox, who founded in the year 1915.

William Fox built many theaters and created many legends in his impressive career. Sound Fox bought the rights to a technique for treatment of German sound films and Fox has been able to produce films with music and track force in 1926. The company was becoming more and more land was needed for dissemination. He purchased nearly three hundred acres of land in Beverly Hills where he built the city Movietone. After the death of his rival, Marcus Loew, William thought about buying Loew's Inc. He was nearly two hundred theaters and MGM below. The transaction was made and the companies were officially merged in 1929. But the owner of MGM, Louis B. Mayer was not happy with this idea and he rebelled by using the unit of the Department of Justice anti-trust and the use of political influence. The luck was not on the side of William, and he was injured in a car accident when he was back to normal again the stock market crashed and he was totally bankrupt. He lost all his fortune and was even forced to go to jail. The only way was to merge with another large company. At this time of the merger of Twentieth Century Fox and held. Fox had nearly two hundred theaters under his belt, but at that time, the twentieth century was in a better financial situation, hence the name of the new company was Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, which began operations on May 31 1935. Schenck became the CEO and Zanuck was head of production. The main actor of the company of Will Rogers was killed in a plane crash and the lead actress Janet Gaynor has also begun to lose their popularity. Zanuck then decided to sign new artists with new talent. It was then that Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, Henry Fonda, Sonja Henie, Don Ameche and became part of the Company Twentieth Century Fox Film. They made a lot of music-dramas and movies about famous biographies, which became hugely successful with the public.

The fortunes of the company was growing rapidly and it became the third American studio profitable, overcoming the RKO and MGM. During World War II, Zanuck went to serve the country and his partner William Goetz took over the company. He made many films light. But Zanuck after returning from the war, he wanted to produce a fun and makes serious films like "Gentleman's Agreement," Pinky, "" Wilson "and" Boomerang ", which also fell into the category of adult films.

After the First World War, the public were more attracted by television. Fox began to experiment with new ideas to bring the crowd back to the theater. With the help of three spotlights the film was projected on a huge concave curve, which created the illusion of three-dimensional character. The effect was achieved without polarized glasses with the help of French anamorphic projection, and this feature has been called Cinemascope. They have other theater owners to switch to this technology and has incurred the costs of conversion. "The Robe" and "How to Marry a Millionaire" were the first experimental films using this technology. After seeing their success to rival other studios have also adopted this technique. Although the public has picked up for a while the numbers started to decline again in 1956. The same year, Zanuck announced his resignation.

Buddy Adler got into the shoes of Darryl Zanuck, but he died after one year. Those who followed could not do anything to bring success to the company. Producer Walter Wagner convinced Elizabeth Taylor to star in "Cleopatra" and the film proved to be a success. The actress Marilyn Monroe.