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4 unusual facts about Marshall Naify


Marshall Naify

Marshall Naify (March 23, 1920 – April 19, 2000) was a motion picture and media tycoon who was a long-term chairman of the board of United Artists and later became founder and co-chairman of the board of Todd-AO, the largest independent post-production sound studio in the United States which worked on Apollo 13 and other major films.

In 1999, Marshall Naify married Lily Cates, widow of director/producer Joseph Cates and mother of Phoebe Cates.

Marshall Naify and his brother Robert Naify were members of The Forbes 400 beginning in 1987 with an estimated combined net worth of $4.3 billion.

Robert Naify

Along with his brother Marshall Naify, members of The Forbes Four Hundred since 1987, with an estimated worth of $4.3 billion, they merged the family's theater chain with United Artists Theater Circuit, early pioneer of cable television in the 1950s, eventually inheriting entire the movie theater empire.



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