The Fox Film Corporation was an American company which produced motion pictures, formed in 1915 when founder William Fox merged two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the Independents; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company.
The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost effective climate existed for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film.
After the Crash of 1929, William Fox lost control of the company in 1930, during a hostile takeover. Under new president Sidney Kent, the new owners merged the company with Twentieth Century Pictures to form 20th Century Fox in 1935.
Notable films
1920s
Lights of New York (1922, with Technicolor sequences)
Madness of Youth (1923, with Technicolor sequences)
Fig Leaves (1926, with Technicolor sequences)
Yankee Senor (1926, with Technicolor sequences)
Hell's Four Hundred (1926, with Technicolor sequences)
Joy Girl (1927, with Technicolor sequences)
Seventh Heaven (1927) (1927/28 Academy Award winner, Best Actress Janet Gaynor)
None But the Brave (1928, with Technicolor sequences)
Street Angel (1928)(1927/28 Academy Award winner, Best Actress Janet Gaynor)
In Old Arizona (1928, Fox's first all-talkie, Academy Award winner) (1928/29 Academy Award winner, Best Actor Warner Baxter)
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929, with Multicolor sequences)
Married in Hollywood (1929, with Multicolor sequences)
Sunnyside Up (1929, with Multicolor sequences)
1930s
New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930, with Multicolor sequences)
Happy Days (1930)
Are You There? (1930)
High Society Blues (1930)
Just Imagine (1930)
The Big Trail (1930)
Song O' My Heart (1930)
Cameo Kirby (1930)
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
Man Trouble (1930)
Delicious (1931, with Multicolor sequences)
East Lynne (1931)
Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
A Connecticut Yankee (non-musical version, with Will Rogers) (1931)
Charlie Chan's Chance (1932)
Call Her Savage (1932)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)
Hoopla (1933)
Cavalcade (1932/33, Academy Award winner, "Best Picture")
State Fair (1933) (non-musical version, with Will Rogers)
Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
Bright Eyes (1934) a miniature Academy Award was given to Shirley Temple for this film
Judge Priest (1934)
Dante's Inferno (1935)
Steamboat 'Round the Bend (1935)
