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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_Fox_(producer)William Fox (producer) - Wikipedia

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   Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (Hungarian: Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), [1] commonly and better known as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.

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   Aug 29, 2020 · Review of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox, by Vanda Krefft. Theda Bara (nicknamed ‘The Vamp’), one of Fox’s biggest stars, in a lavish 1917 production of Cleopatra. No known copy of the film survives. From the Canadian Jewish News, 2019.

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   William Fox. Producer: 7th Heaven. Starting at the age 8 he had a series of jobs before starting his own business in 1900, which was sold to buy a Brooklyn nickelodeon in 1904. As the new owner with an empty house, Fox hired a coin manipulator and a barker to attract patrons into the dark 146-seat theatre.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1879

   • Death Date: May 8, 1952

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   William Fox was born at the end of the 19th century, the son of Hungarian immigrants who had settled in New York. According to Krefft, he aspired to greatness ever since he was a little kid.

6. thecjn.ca › arts › books-and-authorsThe rise and fall of an American movie mogul

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   Nov 4, 2019 · As Vanda Krefft exhaustively documents in The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox, a large and impressive biography, this nearly forgotten mogul helped shape the movie business from its inception, and took the lead in many important industry battles.

7. www.boweryboyshistory.com › 2021 › 04The Fantastic Mr. Fox: The media legacy of a legendary ...

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   Apr 8, 2021 · The Fantastic Mr. Fox: The media legacy of a legendary Brooklyn movie producer. A ghost hangs over an American media empire. Over one hundred years ago, a Brooklyn-based movie impresario named William Fox helped shape the direction of the nascent motion picture industry, building a film-production empire in New Jersey and New York and operating ...

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   Who is William Fox?

   • Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (Hungarian: Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.

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   Did you know who founded Fox?

   • No, but I get why. One week ago, I didn’t know who founded Fox either, until Vanda Krefft’s new biography of William Fox, The Man Who Made The Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox landed on my desk. The founding of Fox, it turns out, predates Murdoch, and goes back all the way to 1915.

   The Man Behind 20th Century Fox: What Led To His Ultimate ... - Forbes

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   When did William Fox Die?

   • In 1933, he collaborated with the writer Upton Sinclair on a book Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox in which Fox recounted his life, and stating his views on what he considered to be a large Wall Street conspiracy against him. Fox died in 1952 at the age of 73.

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   What happened to Fox films?

   • In 1930, however, Fox was essentially severed from the industry that would continue to bear his name. He lost most of his fortune in the 1929 stock market crash, then lost control of his production company in a hostile takeover the following year. By 1935, the struggling Fox Films was acquired by Twentieth Century Pictures.

   The Fantastic Mr. Fox: The media legacy of a legendary Brooklyn movie

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   May 18, 2018 · William Fox was one of the true pioneers of the American motion picture industry. From his base in New York City, he established a chain of early movie and vaudeville theaters.