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unusual facts about 20th Century-Fox



8th Primetime Emmy Awards

John Monks, for The 20th Century Fox Hour, (Episode: "Miracle on 34th Street"), (CBS)

American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II

The album features three new songs, including the lead single "I Got My Game On", which was later utilized as the theme song to Howie Long's Tough Guys show during the FOX Super Bowl XLII pre-game show.

Archaellum

Archaea were first classified as a separate group of prokaryotes in 1977 by Carl Woese and George E. Fox based on the differences in the sequence of ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes.

Arnaz Battle

A USA Today honorable mention All-America and third-team All-South quarterback by Fox Sports South.

Bio-Attack

It was licensed by Fox Video Games, as it is based on the 20th Century Fox film, Fantastic Voyage.

Cam Brainard

As a sports announcer, Brainard hosted "This Week In Baseball" on FOX (taking over for the late Mel Allen) from 2000 until the show ended its run after more than 30 years in 2011.

Chloë Fox

Chloë Fox is the daughter of Australian children's author, Mem Fox and teacher Malcolm Fox.

Delorhynchus

It was first named by the paleontologist R. C. Fox in 1962 and the type species is Delorhynchus priscus.

Desafuero of Manuel López Obrador

27 April 2005: President Fox announced changes in his cabinet (including the resignation of Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha) and a re-evaluation of the legal case against López Obrador, and he proposed a constitutional amendment so civil rights are not suspended until a citizen is found guilty.

Diana Scarwid

In 2004, Scarwid landed a contract role in the acclaimed Fox television series Wonderfalls.

Documentary Film Movement

Fox, Jo, 'John Grierson, his "documentary boys" and the British Ministry of Information', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 25 (2005), pp.

Elise Harney

Then, the newly formed Milwaukee Chicks and Minneapolis Millerettes entered the league in 1944 and played their home games at American Association ball parks during the time periods the Milwaukee Brewers and Minneapolis Millers male teams were on road trips.

Eri Yoshida

On August 21, 2010, she was the feature story on FOX Sports' This Week In Baseball, where she was shown meeting her idol, Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield.

Foxwhelp

This is one of the oldest surviving varieties of cider apple; it is first mentioned in John Evelyn's Advertisements Concerning Cider in his work Pomona of 1664, in which it is commented that "cider for strength ... is best made of the Fox-whelp of the Forest of Dean, but which comes not to be drunk until two or three years old".

Graeme Samuel

He has had a long career in law, working as a partner in Melbourne law firm Phillips Fox & Masel (now part of DLA Piper), and in business served as the executive director of Macquarie Bank from 1981 to 1986.

HD 189733

HD 189733, also catalogued as V452 Vulpeculae, is a binary star system approximately 63 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

J. Edward Fox

Fox left government service in 1989, joining Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo as Managing Director of Mintz, Levin's Governmental and International Affairs Group.

The next year, President of the United States Ronald Reagan nominated Fox as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in 1986, and Fox held this office from June 18, 1986 until February 21, 1989.

Jetix

The first Fox Kids channel in the UK was launched in October 1996 and the Fox Kids Europe (FKE) was incorporated in November 1999 with 75.7% being held by Fox Family Worldwide (FFW) with the balance of ownership listed on Euronext.

KAKW-DT

The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996 as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market; the station was originally owned by Communications Corporation of America, along with Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 22) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE (channel 48).

Keith Costigan

Keith began with Fox as a wise-cracking barman on Fox Football Friday before moving on to co-host Super Saturday with Nick Webster.

Lewis Benson

T. Canby Jones, onetime Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Wilmington College, and author of George Fox's Attitude Toward War and "The Power of the Lord Is Over All": The Pastoral Letters of George Fox, said,

Lilly Téllez

Téllez "proof" was too weak, and the timing suspicious – just before Francisco Gil announced, as part of his work in Fox's government, sanctions to TV Azteca's owner Ricardo Salinas Pliego for illegal profit from privileged information both in the United States stock market (where he is prosecuted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and in the Mexican one in operations related to his cell-phone company Unefon.

Lorne Frohman

Frohman is the host of Distinguished Artists, an in-depth one-hour interview show where guests have included Russell Peters, Sara Polley, David Cronenberg, Eugene Levy, Vivica A. Fox, Ivan Reitman, Sandra Shamas, Smothers Brothers, Joan Rivers, Mort Sahl and many more.

Marc Price

He also played the young American tourist calling himself Michael J. Fox in Killer Tomatoes Eat France in 1991 with John Astin, Angela Visser and Steve Lundquist.

Matt Lauria

After finishing Friday Night Lights, Lauria moved to Chicago, Illinois after being cast in the series regular role of Caleb Evers in Fox's crime drama The Chicago Code.

Miniature Lop

Agouti, Black, Blue, Brown, Butterfly, Chinchilla, Fawn, Fox, Opal, Orange, Sable Marten, Sealpoint, Siamese Sable, Siamese Smoke, Sooty Fawn, Steel, White

Moodabe family

The owner of the chain, 20th Century Fox sold out in the 1980s to the Chase Corporation and then the chain came into the ownership of Hoyts which continued to employ the brothers in senior management positions.

Mount Griffith

It was remapped in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Raymond Griffith of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted in assembling motion-picture records of the expedition.

Myles Kovacs

Myles Kovacs and wife Cynthia Kovacs have recently been on Fox's reality series, The Secret Millionaire, in which $150,000 of their own money was given away to deserving people.

New York Television Festival

It features a "Premiere Week" screening series, which now debuts new shows from networks including NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, The CW, and HBO.

Panguna mine

They accused Bougainville Copper Ltd., of being responsible for poisoning the entire length of the Jaba River, and causing birth defects, as well as the extinction of the flying fox on the island.

Paramount Resources

In addition to its own name, Paramount has several subsidiaries with names resembling those of Hollywood companies, including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources, and Pixar Petroleum.

Peter Knecht

Knecht has appeared as a television analyst and consultant on criminal justice for major news outlets, including national CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX broadcasts, and locally for KCAL-TV-Channel 9 and KCOP-TV-Channel 13.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Alongside the panel of Fox News anchors was a psychiatrist by the name of Carole Lieberman, who remarked: "Video games have increasingly, and more brazenly, connected sex and violence in images, actions and words. This has the psychological impact of doubling the excitement, stimulation and incitement to copycat acts. The increase in rapes can be attributed, in large part, to the playing out of such scenes in video games."

Rüppell's fox

The Libyan Posts (General Posts and Telecommunications Company, GPTC) in cooperation with WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), dedicated a postal stamps issue to Rüppell's fox on May 1, 2008.

Russel Friend

Russel Friend is an American television writer and producer producer who served as an executive producer on the Fox series House, for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2010 for co-writing the episode "Broken".

She's a Fox

She's a Fox was an Official Selection in numerous film festivals throughout the United States and internationally, most notably the Cannes Short Film Corner, Heartland Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and the Academy-accredited LA Shorts Fest.

St. George, Staten Island

Brill sold the theater within three years to William Fox, whose name lives on in the Fox Television Network and 20th Century Fox film studio.

Strange Luck

Strange Luck is an American television series that aired on FOX, created by Karl Schaefer and starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time.

Super Bowl Sunday

The television network carrying the game (either CBS, Fox, or NBC) will usually devote the entire day's programming schedule to the game, with extended pregame shows, NFL Films retrospectives of the previous season, and special versions of the Sunday morning talk shows in the morning and afternoon hours leading into the game.

Terry Fox Award

The selection committee, that included Fox's brother, Darrell, sportscaster Brian Williams, former-Olympian and VANOC board member Charmaine Crooks and former rower Tricia Smith, originally planned to choose only one recipient but felt both athletes' stories were so compelling that they decided to honour both.

The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene

"The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene" was first broadcast on December 9, 2012, as part of Fox's Animation Domination programming block, and was preceded by the premiere of the The Simpsons episode "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" and was followed by the premiere of the Family Guy episode "Friends Without Benefits."

Tom Abrams

Abrams has sold numerous feature film screenplays in varied genres including western Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros., historic adventures The Captain's Wife for Fox 2000, and The American Princess for New Line Cinema, The Battle of Ono for John Woo & Terence Cheng, horror film Cave for Working Title, sci-fi action Metal Machine for producer James Jacks at Universal, and kids action comedy Gameboy Charlie for Bruckheimer producer, Chad Oman.

Tom Devanney

Devanney and his Perfect Strangers producing colleagues (Shari Hearn, Bob Keyes) went on to produce the Fox sitcom Shaky Ground, which ran during the 1992-93 season and starred Matt Frewer, Robin Riker and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

Tookie Gilbert

Gilbert was a formidable slugger during his minor league career in the Class AA Southern Association, where he played for the Nashville Vols, and led the American Association in homers with 29 in 1951 while a member of the Minneapolis Millers, but as a major leaguer he batted only .203 in 183 games played and 482 at bats in appearances for the 1950 and 1953 Giants.

Valda Valkyrien

However, the contractual relationship soured after one film and she left Fox to work in feature-length films back at Thanhouser as well as for Lewis J. Selznick's studio.

VITAC

The company captions over 220,000 hours of programming each year for over 1400 customers, including cable channels CNN and MSNBC, cable network Discovery Communications, syndicated and cable productions for Fox and CBS Television Distribution, off-network productions for NBCUniversal and Warner Bros..

Zack Ward

He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.


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Bomber's Moon

Shortly after completing Bomber's Moon, George Montgomery enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and did not appear in another film until the 1946 20th Century Fox production Three Little Girls in Blue.

Breakfast for Two

Stanwyck and Marshall worked together once more, immediately following this film, on the 20th-Century-Fox drama Always Goodbye (1938).

Cody Jarrett

Initially a musician living in Tampa Bay, Florida, his Hollywood career started with being cast by director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger) and producer Joel Silver (The Matrix) in a supporting role in 1990's Andrew Dice Clay film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (20th Century-Fox).

Confirm or Deny

Confirm or Deny is a 1941 film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Archie Mayo & Fritz Lang (uncredited), and starring by Don Ameche and Joan Bennett.

Emil Newman

He had 15 titles in 1943, including "Musical Direction" for the all-black musical Stormy Weather and the 20th Century Fox wartime film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas, 19 in 1944, 17 in 1945 and 16 in 1946, including Hugo Friedhofer's Academy Award score for The Best Years of Our Lives, which he also conducted.

Female Jungle

The movie was shown as a double feature with Roger Corman's The Oklahoma Woman in 1956 to ride on Mansfield's popularity which had risen dramatically due to her 20th Century Fox films released at the time.

Film northants

The 2009 event was supported by Vue Cinema, Aspect Ratio Productions, Heart, Reelscape Films, The University of Northampton, The Film Lab, 20th Century Fox and London Midland train line.

Grady Twins Productions

She later joined forces with Original Film's Neal Moritz and Marty Adelstein to launch Original Television, eventually going on to head her own production company through 20th Century Fox.

Hilda Crane

Philip Dunne was the screenwriter on three previous 20th Century Fox epic films which star Jean Simmons, The Robe (1953), Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) and The Egyptian (1954).

John Rodd

Films worked on while on staff as Orchestral Scoring Recordist at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox include I, Robot, The Last Samurai, Spider-Man 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix (trilogy), Cast Away, X-2, Jurassic Park III, The Bourne Identity, Road to Perdition and The Sixth Sense.

Mariano Andreu

He designed costumes for the 20th Century Fox film That Lady (1955, starring Olivia de Havilland and Paul Scofield) and the short ballet film Spanish Fiesta (1942).

Movietone

Movietone Records,a budget subsidiary of 20th Century Fox' record division

Ravi Chopra

Ravi Chopra was served with a legal notice in 2009 by 20th Century Fox, which charged that his upcoming movie Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai blatantly plagiarized the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny.

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

After Monroe's stardom, 20th Century Fox began claiming that Monroe's only line in the film had been cut out, an anecdote Monroe repeated on Person to Person in 1955, but film historian James Haspiel says her line is intact and she also appears in a shot with herself and another woman paddling a canoe.

Shiva Rose

Gharibafshar's past film credits include the 20th Century Fox feature The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, directed by Mick Jackson and HBO's original film 61*, directed by Billy Crystal.

Smurl haunting

In 1991 a two-hour made for TV movie entitled The Haunted was released by 20th Century Fox, written by Robert Curran, Jack Smurl, Janet Smurl, Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren, and starring Jeffrey DeMunn as Jack Smurl and Sally Kirkland as Janet Smurl.

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957.

The Lady in Ermine

It was remade again in 1948 by 20th Century-Fox as That Lady in Ermine, starring Betty Grable and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

The Secret of the Purple Reef

The Secret of The Purple Reef is a 1960 - 20th Century Fox film based on a novel by Dorothy Cottrell entitled The Silent Reefs.

The Way to the Gold

Elvis Presley was offered the starring role in the film but 20th Century-Fox refused to pay the $250,000 plus 50% of the profits that Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker was demanding (Fox had offered $150,000 plus 50%).

Tony DeSare

“Let’s Just Stay In,” one of the CD’s original songs, will be featured in the upcoming 20th Century Fox film The Tooth Fairy, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ashley Judd, Billy Crystal and Julie Andrews.

Villa Riviera

In 1937, silent film star Norma Talmadge and her ex-husband Joseph Schenk, president of 20th Century Fox, bought the building for $1.5 million.

William Boyer

Sony and Tasty Pixels Production "Phreakers" The BBC's "No Smoking" 20th Century Fox - Black Knight (2001) starring Martin Lawrence And most recently Miramax's Cold Mountain (2003).