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JOSEPH M. SCHENCK
Joseph M. Schenck, motion picture producer, began his career in the moving picture industry as manager for Normal Talmadge and Roscoe Arbuckle.
He became chairman of the board of United Artists Corporation in 1925 and president in April of 1927. Mr. Schenck founded Twentieth Century Pictures Corporation in 1933, which later merged with the Fox Film Company, forming Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, of which he was formerly chairman of the Board and vice president, and is now executive had of production. He also formed two British film companies in 1935.
Mr. Schenck was president of Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., in 1924 and again from 1936 to 1939, Hollywood, California.
In October of 1917, Mr. Schenck married Norma Talmadge. They were later divorced. His home is in Beverly Hills, California.
Offices: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Beverly Hills, California.
Transcribed 10-17-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 120, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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