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When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little menace to industry juggernauts such as Paramount and MGM. In the years that adopted however, led by professionals Darryl F. Zanuck and Spyros Skouras, it soon surfaced as you of the most important studios. Though working from different offices in New York and Los Angeles and frequently of two different brains, both men navigated Twentieth Century-Fox through the tests of the World War II boom, the birth of tv, the Hollywood Blacklist, plus more to an era of exceptional success, including what was then your highest grossing movie of all time, The Sound of Music. Twentieth Century-Fox is a comprehensive examination of the studio's change during the Zanuck-Skouras era. Rather than limiting his scope to the Hollywood production studio room, Lev also delves in to the corporate strategies, circulation models, government relationships, and technologies which were the obligations of the New York head office. Moving chronologically, he examines the corporate history before studying individual films produced by Twentieth Century-Fox during that period. Drawn essentially from original archival research, Twentieth Century-Fox offers not only enlightening analyses and new insights in to the films and the history of the company, but also affords the listener a unique perspective that to view the advancement of the entire film industry.
