Twentieth Century-Fox: The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935–1965

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TwenTieTh CenTury-Fox THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK TwenTieTh CenTury-Fox The ZanuCk-SkouraS yearS, 1935–1965 by Peter Lev University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2013 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2013 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713–7819 http://utpress.utexas.edu/about/book-permissions The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lev, Peter, 1948– Twentieth Century-Fox: the Zanuck-Skouras years, 1935–1965 / by Peter Lev. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-292-74447-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation—History. I. Title. pn1999.t8l38 2013 384'.80979494—dc23 2012025773 doi:10.7560/744479 To Yvonne and Yvette THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Merger, 1935–1939 7 Chapter 2: Wartime Prosperity, 1940–1945 43 Chapter 3: Peak Achievements, 1946–1950 102 Chapter 4: A Slow Decline, 1951–1960 161 Chapter 5: Bust and Boom, 1961–1965 228 Epilogue, 1966–2011 267 Notes 277 Selected Bibliography 291 Index 301 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...