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20th Century Fox logo from 1982.
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)
- Titanic (1997)
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