Twentieth Century Pictures

This article is about the film studio prior to the 1935 merger. For the company after its merger with Fox Films formerly known as 20th Century Fox, see 20th Century Studios.

Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc.
IndustryFilm
FoundedJune 26, 1933; 91 years ago (1933-06-26)
FoundersJoseph Schenck
Darryl F. Zanuck
DefunctMay 31, 1935; 89 years ago (1935-05-31)
FateMerged with Fox Film Corporation
Successor20th Century-Fox (now 20th Century Studios)

Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an American independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph Schenck (the former president of United Artists) and Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. Pictures (and co-founded by William Goetz from Fox Studios, and Raymond Griffith). The company product was distributed theatrically under United Artists (UA), and leased space at Samuel Goldwyn Studios.[1]

Cedric Hardwicke and Fredric March in Les Misérables

Schenck and Zanuck left UA over a stock dispute and began to negotiate with the Fox Film Corporation and the two companies merged that spring, forming 20th Century Fox in 1935.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey (2002). Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 19–20. ISBN 9780810842441. OCLC 796013581.