The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox

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A riveting story of ambition, greed, and genius unfolding at the crack of dawn of modern The usa. This landmark biography brings into focal point an enchanting brilliant entrepreneur—like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, a true American visionary—who risked everything to realize his bold dream of a Hollywood empire.

Although a major Hollywood studio still bears William Fox’s name, the man himself has mostly been forgotten by history, even written off as a failure. Now, in this fascinating biography, Vanda Krefft corrects the record, explaining why Fox’s legacy is central to the history of Hollywood.

At the heart of William Fox’s life used to be the myth of the American Dream. His story intertwines the fate of the nineteenth-century immigrants who flooded into New York, the city’s vibrant and ruthless gilded age history, and the birth of The usa’s movie industry amid the crack of dawn of the modern era. Drawing on a decade of original research, The Man Who Made the Movies offers a rich, compelling look at a complex man emblematic of his time, one of the crucial fascinating and formative eras in American history.

Growing up in Lower East Side tenements, the eldest son of impoverished Hungarian immigrants, Fox started selling candy in the street. That entrepreneurial ambition eventually grew one small Brooklyn theater into a $300 million empire of deluxe studios and theaters that rivaled those of Adolph Zukor, Marcus Loew, and the Warner brothers, and launched stars such as Theda Bara. Amid the euphoric roaring twenties, the early movie moguls waged a fierce battle for keep an eye on of their industry. A fearless risk-taker, Fox won and used to be hailed as a genius—until a confluence of circumstances, culminating with the 1929 stock market crash, led to his ruin.

An Amazon Best Book of December 2017: William Fox’s journey from Lower East Side immigrant to successful movie mogul is in many ways a classic tale, but for one exception—within fifteen years, he used to be out of the company that still bears his name. Fox’s rise and fall is thoroughly examined by journalist Vanda Krefft, leaving few stones unturned in this voluminous portrait. What emerges is the story of an historic character, who launched careers and built an empire, and who battled it out with other moguls during the roaring twenties, only to be taken down by circumstance and the historic crash of 1929.—Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book Review

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