20th Century Fox

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20th Century Fox logo from 1982.

20th Century Fox is a major American film studio which was founded in 1935 by a merger of the Fox Film Corporation with one of its competitors, Twentieth Century Pictures. During the "Golden Age of Hollywood when the so-called studio system prevailed, Fox was one of the Big Five studios with MGM, Paramount, Warners and RKO Radio. It is now a subsidiary of Disney.

Among films produced by Fox are:

  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  • How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  • The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
  • Laura (1944)
  • The House on 92nd Street (1945)
  • My Darling Clementine (1946)
  • Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
  • Call Northside 777 (1948)
  • Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
  • The Gunfighter (1950)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • The King and I (1956)
  • South Pacific (1958)
  • Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
  • The Innocents (1961)
  • The 300 Spartans (1962)
  • The Longest Day (1962)
  • Zorba the Greek (1964)
  • The Sound of Music (1965)
  • Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965)
  • Von Ryan's Express (1965)
  • The Flight of the Phoenix (1965),
  • Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  • Patton (1970), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
  • The French Connection (1971),
  • The Towering Inferno (1974)
  • Star Wars (1977), and Titanic (1997)

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