20th Century Fox

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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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