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    Nicholas M. Schenck (14 November 1880, Rybinsk, Russia – 4 March 1969, Florida) was a Russian-American film studio executive and businessman. One of seven...
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  • 2016 to 2018. Schenck was born in 1942, the son of film producer Aubrey Schenck. His great-uncles Joseph M. Schenck and Nicholas Schenck were studio executives...
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    associates included Adolph Zukor, Joseph Schenck, and Nicholas Schenck. In addition to theaters, Loew and the Schencks expanded the Fort George Amusement Park...
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  • Boy. He was the nephew of MGM studio chief Nicholas Schenck and United Artists studio boss Joseph M. Schenck. Nayfack was born in Brooklyn to Saul and...
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    attractions. In 1910 the park was purchased by Nicholas and Joseph Schenck and their Realty Trust Company. The Schencks were brothers who were active in the nascent...
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    Joseph Michael Schenck (/ˈskɛŋk/; December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive. Schenck was born to a Jewish...
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  • vocational education (born Mary Schenck) Michael Schenck (1876–1948), Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Nicholas Schenck (1881–1969), American film...
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    four wives, and his surviving widow, was Nicola Schenck Dantine, the daughter of film mogul Nicholas Schenck and an actress also known as Niki Dantine. Bautzer...
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    including over casting its stars. Thalberg's good relationship with Nicholas Schenck, then president of Loew's Incorporated, proved to be an ongoing advantage...
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    Fred M. Wilcox. Her sister Pansy Wilcox married film studio executive Nicholas Schenck. Selwyn worked as an actress and theater producer. She produced several...
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  • of Loew's passed to Nicholas Schenck. In 1929, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation bought the Loew family's holdings with Schenck's assent. Mayer and Thalberg...
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  • Martha Schenk, she was the daughter of American film studio executive, Nicholas Schenck. She was a close friend of actresses Marlene Dietrich and Rachel Roberts...
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    Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph Schenck (the former president of United Artists) and Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner...
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    based in Los Angeles, reporting to Loew's longtime right-hand man Nicholas Schenck. He would hold this post for the next 27 years. Before the year was...
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    during the Russian Empire. 20th-century American film moguls Nicholas Schenck and Joseph Schenck were born in the town, and there is a grand 18th-century...
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    passed to his longtime associate, Nicholas Schenck. Fox saw an opportunity to expand his empire, and in 1929, with Schenck's assent, bought the Loew family's...
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    of financial expectations at the box office. In 1928 film executive Nicholas Schenck arranged a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for Keaton's services. Keaton...
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    second most powerful figure in the movie industry, just behind MGM head Nicholas Schenck. In the wake of the success of Gold Diggers of Broadway, journalists...
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    Taylor was instead hired by Famous Players to manage 25 theatres. Nicholas Schenck, the president of Loews, whose company owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer met...
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    the United States.: 209  Soon afterwards, Schaefer was approached by Nicholas Schenck, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's parent company, with an offer on the...
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    Rubinoff (born 1935), tennis player Damon Runyon, newspaperman and writer Nicholas Schenck, MGM studios Dutch Schultz, mobster Robin Sherwood, actress Sid Tepper...
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    to a friend of Hitler and an enemy of democracy." "Loews chairman Nicholas Schenck was so upset he canceled Roach's MGM deal." This proposed business...
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    Ruth Selwyn, a sister of director Fred M. Wilcox and sister-in-law of Nicholas Schenck. Pierre of the Plains (1914) (actor, play) The Arab (1915) (actor,...
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    time was competing with Paramount-Publix. In 1927, Loew's president Nicholas Schenck agreed to take over five sites from Paramount-Publix, in exchange for...
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    he partnered with Joseph Schenck to form 20th Century Pictures, Inc. with financial help from Joseph's brother Nicholas Schenck and Louis B. Mayer, president...
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    terms of the agreement positioned MGM executives Irving Thalberg and Nicholas Schenck, both sympathetic to the star, to supervise his career. Gilbert, however...
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    after her father's money. In 1958, Dantine married Nicola Schenck, daughter of Nicholas Schenck, one of the founders of Loews. His wife acted under the...
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    Island. When Schenck died in 1689, his son Martin received ownership of the estate;: 14  the mill was later inherited by Nicholas Schenck.: 14  In 1784...
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    time was competing with Paramount-Publix. In 1927, Loew's president Nicholas Schenck agreed to take over five sites from Paramount-Publix, in exchange for...
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    Dougherty of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia called MGM president Nicholas Schenck. It was not shown again, and the negative and prints may have been...
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