List of Twentieth Century Pictures films

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Poster for Blood Money (1933)
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Poster for Moulin Rouge (1934)

This is a list of films produced by Twentieth Century Pictures , distributed by United Artists and 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation.

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Release DateFilm TitleNotes
October 7, 1933 The Bowery This is the first movie made by Twentieth Century Pictures.
November 2, 1933 Broadway Through a Keyhole [1]
November 17, 1933 Blood Money The film was considered to be lost for over forty years until it resurfaced on TCM.
December 1, 1933 Advice to the Lovelorn [1]
January 5, 1934 Gallant Lady [1]
January 19, 1934 Moulin Rouge This is the last Twentieth Century Pictures film to have the original title sequence layout
March 29, 1934 Looking for Trouble [1]
April 7, 1934 The House of Rothschild This is one of only a few films other than Disney's Silly Symphonies to have three-strip Technicolor.
April 28, 1934 The Last Gentleman [1]
May 18, 1934 Born to Be Bad This is the only film out of Twentieth Century's first 18 movies to be a box office bomb and it is one of two films that weren't co-reissued by Fox and NTA, the other one being Call of the Wild.
August 15, 1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back This is the first film to be copyrighted in 1934.
August 24, 1934 The Affairs of Cellini [1]
December 23, 1934 The Mighty Barnum [1]
January 25, 1935 Clive of India This is the last film to have Darryl F. Zanuck's full name on the title sequence.
February 22, 1935 Folies Bergère de Paris This is the only Twentieth Century Pictures film to be filmed in sepia.
April 20, 1935 Les Misérables This is one of the few films that were reissued by 20th Century-Fox in the 1940s-1950s
April 28, 1935 Cardinal Richelieu [1]
May 10, 1935L'homme des Folies BergèreThis is just the French dub of Folies-Bergère de Paris
August 9, 1935 Call of the Wild This is the final film under the Twentieth Century Pictures banner and to be distributed by United Artists.
November 8, 1935 Metropolitan This is the first of five unfinished Twentieth Century Pictures films released under 20th Century-Fox's banner.
November 14, 1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo [1]
November 15, 1935 Thanks a Million
December 6, 1935 Show Them No Mercy!
April 10, 1936 A Message to Garcia This is the last Twentieth Century Pictures film.

Merger

20th Century Pictures merged with the bankrupt Fox Film Corporation on May 31, 1935 after talks began about merging the two companies the same day, to form 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation (the hyphen was dropped in 1985 and it was shortened to just 20th Century Studios in 2020) which already had its first film right after the merger which was Under the Pampas Moon, released a day later.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "20th Century Pictures, Inc". AFI Catalog of Feature Films . American Film Institute . Retrieved March 8, 2020.

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