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Edward Black (producer)

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Edward Black (18 August 1900, Birmingham - 30 November 1948, London) was an English film producer, best known for being head of production at Gainsborough Studios in the late 1930s and early 1940s, during which time he oversaw production of the Gainsborough melodramas. [1]

86 relations: A Girl Must Live, A Letter from Home (film), A Man About the House, Alexander Korda, Alf's Button Afloat, Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Barker, P.I., Arthur Askey, Ask a Policeman, Back-Room Boy, Band Waggon (film), Bank Holiday (film), Bees in Paradise, Birmingham, Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film), Boys Will Be Boys (film), C. M. Woolf, Carol Reed, Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt, Convict 99, Cottage to Let, Crackerjack (1938 film), Doctor Syn (film), Everybody Dance (film), Fanny by Gaslight (film), Film producer, For Freedom, Gainsborough melodramas, Gainsborough Pictures, Gasbags, Gaumont-British, General Film Distributors, Girl in the News, Give Us the Moon, Good Morning, Boys, Hey! Hey! USA, Hi Gang! (film), I Thank You (film), Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It, Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, It's That Man Again (film), J. Arthur Rank, James Mason, King Arthur Was a Gentleman, Kipps (1941 film), Margaret Lockwood, Maurice Ostrer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael Balcon, Millions Like Us, ..., Miss London Ltd., Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light, Neutral Port, Night Train to Munich, O-Kay for Sound, Oh, Mr Porter!, Old Bones of the River, Once a Crook, Owd Bob (1938 film), Phyllis Calvert, Rush Hour (1941 film), Said O'Reilly to McNab, Screenonline, Shepherd's Bush, Sidney Gilliat, Stewart Granger, Strange Boarders, The Frozen Limits, The Ghost Train (1941 film), The Lady Vanishes, The Man in Grey, The Man Who Changed His Mind, The Young Mr Pitt, They Came by Night, Time Flies (film), Tudor rose, Tudor Rose (film), Two Thousand Women, Uncensored (film), Waterloo Road (film), We Dive at Dawn, Where There's a Will (1936 film), Where's That Fire?, Will Hay, Young and Innocent, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (36 more) »

A Girl Must Live

A Girl Must Live is a 1939 British romantic comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood, with supporting cast Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer, and Hugh Sinclair.

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A Letter from Home (film)

A Letter from Home is a 1941 short documentary film directed by Carol Reed.

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A Man About the House

A Man About the House is a black-and-white British film directed by Leslie Arliss and released in 1947.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Alf's Button Afloat

Alf's Button Afloat is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Alastair Sim and Peter Gawthorne.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Andy Barker, P.I.

Andy Barker, P.I. is an American detective sitcom starring Andy Richter produced and broadcast by NBC, and co-starring Tony Hale, Marshall Manesh, Harve Presnell, and Clea Lewis.

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Arthur Askey

Arthur Bowden Askey, CBE (6 June 190016 November 1982) was an English comedian and actor.

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Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel which stars Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

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Back-Room Boy

Back-Room Boy is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Arthur Askey, Googie Withers, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott.

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Band Waggon (film)

Band Waggon is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch and Moore Marriott.

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Bank Holiday (film)

Bank Holiday (also known as Three on a Weekend) is a 1938 British drama film directed by Carol Reed and starring John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams and Kathleen Harrison.

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Bees in Paradise

Bees in Paradise is a 1944 British musical comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton and Peter Graves.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film)

Bonnie Prince Charlie is a 1948 British historical film directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films depicting the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie within it.

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Boys Will Be Boys (film)

Boys Will Be Boys is a 1935 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine which stars Will Hay, Gordon Harker and Jimmy Hanley.

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C. M. Woolf

Charles Moss Woolf (1879–1942) was a British film distributor.

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Carol Reed

Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'.

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Convict 99

Convict 99 is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring British comedian Will Hay and Googie Withers.

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Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let is a 1941 spy film starring Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim and John Mills.

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Crackerjack (1938 film)

Crackerjack is a 1938 British comedy crime film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer and Noel Madison.

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Doctor Syn (film)

Doctor Syn is a 1937 British black-and-white historical dramatic adventure film, directed by Roy William Neill for Gainsborough Pictures.

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Everybody Dance (film)

Everybody Dance is a 1936 British musical film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Cicely Courtneidge, Ernest Truex, Percy Parsons and Alma Taylor.

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Fanny by Gaslight (film)

Fanny by Gaslight (US title – Man of Evil) is a 1944 British drama film, produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a novel by Michael Sadleir (also adapted as a 1981 mini-series).

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Film producer

A film producer is a person who oversees the production of a film.

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For Freedom

For Freedom is a 1940 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and Castleton Knight.

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Gainsborough melodramas

The Gainsborough melodramas were a sequence of films produced by the British film studio Gainsborough Pictures during the 1940s which conformed to a melodramatic style.

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Gainsborough Pictures

Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch, London.

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Gasbags

Gasbags is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and Marcel Varnel and starring The Crazy Gang.

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Gaumont-British

The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation was a company that produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom.

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General Film Distributors

General Film Distributors (GFD), later known as J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors and Rank Film Distributors Ltd., was a British film distribution company based in London.

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Girl in the News

Girl in the News is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes and Emlyn Williams.

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Give Us the Moon

Give Us the Moon is a 1944 British comedy film directed and written by Val Guest and starring Vic Oliver, Margaret Lockwood, and Peter Graves.

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Good Morning, Boys

Good Morning, Boys is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and featuring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Martita Hunt, Lilli Palmer and Peter Gawthorne.

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Hey! Hey! USA

Hey! Hey! USA is a 1938 British comedy film starring comedian Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy and Eddie Ryan.

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Hi Gang! (film)

Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver.

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I Thank You (film)

I Thank You is a 1941 black and white British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott.

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Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It

Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It is a 1941 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert and Edward Chapman.

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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday is a 1939 British detective film directed by Walter Forde and starring Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim and Linden Travers.

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It's That Man Again (film)

It's That Man Again is a 1943 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Greta Gynt and Jack Train.

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J. Arthur Rank

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (22 December 1888 – 29 March 1972) was a British industrialist who was head and founder of the Rank Organisation.

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James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.

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King Arthur Was a Gentleman

King Arthur Was a Gentleman is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Ronald Shiner as Sargent and Arthur Askey as Arthur King.

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Kipps (1941 film)

Kipps, also known as The Remarkable Mr.

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Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was an English actress.

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Maurice Ostrer

Maurice Ostrer (1896-1975) was a British film executive.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Balcon

Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer, known for his leadership of Ealing Studios from 1938 to 1955.

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Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail.

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Miss London Ltd.

Miss London Ltd. is a 1943 British, black-and-white, comedy, musical, war film, directed by Val Guest and starring Ronald Shiner as Sailor Meredith and Arthur Askey as Arthur Bowman.

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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

Mr.

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Neutral Port

Neutral Port is a 1940 British war film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, and Phyllis Calvert, with a supporting role for Wally Patch.

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Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison.

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O-Kay for Sound

O-Kay for Sound is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring the Crazy Gang troupe of comedians.

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Oh, Mr Porter!

Oh, Mr Porter! is a 1937 British comedy film starring Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel.

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Old Bones of the River

Old Bones of the River is a comedy film released in 1938 starring British actor Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by Marcel Varnel, based on the characters created by Edgar Wallace.

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Once a Crook

Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for 20th Century Fox and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.

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Owd Bob (1938 film)

Owd Bob is a 1938 British drama film directed by Robert Stevenson.

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Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill (née Bickle; 18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002), known professionally as Phyllis Calvert, was an English film, stage and television actress.

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Rush Hour (1941 film)

Rush Hour is a 1941 British Public Information short film made by the wartime Ministry of Information, and designed to pass on an important message to cinemagoers in a humorous manner.

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Said O'Reilly to McNab

Said O'Reilly to McNab is a 1937 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Will Mahoney, Will Fyffe and Ellis Drake.

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Screenonline

Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.

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Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush is a district of west London, England, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

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Sidney Gilliat

Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.

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Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger (born James Lablache Stewart; 6 May 191316 August 1993) was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles.

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Strange Boarders

Strange Boarders is a 1938 British comedy thriller film, directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for Gainsborough Pictures, and starring Tom Walls, Renée Saint-Cyr, Googie Withers and Ronald Adam.

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The Frozen Limits

The Frozen Limits is a 1939 British comedy western film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Jimmy Nervo, Bud Flanagan, Teddy Knox, Chesney Allen and Charlie Naughton a group of entertainers commonly known as The Crazy Gang.

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The Ghost Train (1941 film)

The Ghost Train is a 1941 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde based on the 1923 play of the same name written by Arnold Ridley.

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The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.

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The Man in Grey

The Man in Grey is a 1943 British film melodrama made by Gainsborough Pictures, and is considered as the first of its "Gainsborough melodramas" (a series of period costume dramas).

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The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind is a 1936 British science fiction horror film starring Boris Karloff and Anna Lee.

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The Young Mr Pitt

The Young Mr.

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They Came by Night

They Came by Night is a 1940 British crime film directed by Harry Lachman and starring Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert and Anthony Hulme.

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Time Flies (film)

Times Flies is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, Felix Aylmer and Moore Marriott.

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Tudor rose

The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of York and House of Lancaster.

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Tudor Rose (film)

Tudor Rose (US title Nine Days a Queen) is a 1936 British film starring Cedric Hardwicke and Nova Pilbeam which was directed by Robert Stevenson.

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Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women (1944) is a British comedy-drama war film about a camp of interned British women in Occupied France.

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Uncensored (film)

Uncensored is a 1942 British World War II drama, directed by Anthony Asquith for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Eric Portman and Phyllis Calvert.

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Waterloo Road (film)

Waterloo Road (1945) is a British film based on the Waterloo area of South London, starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alistair Sim, and directed by Sidney Gilliat.

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We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith, starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War.

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Where There's a Will (1936 film)

Where There's a Will is a 1936 British comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Norma Varden.

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Where's That Fire?

Where's That Fire? is a 1940 British comedy film, produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.

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Will Hay

Hay in ''The Ghost of St. Michael's'' (1941) William Thomson Hay (6 December 1888 – 18 April 1949) was an English comedian, actor, author, film director and amateur astronomer who came to notice for his theatrical sketch as a jocular schoolmaster, known as Dr.

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Young and Innocent

Young and Innocent (American title: The Girl Was Young) is a 1937 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Black_(producer)

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