Sol M. Wurtzel

Sol M. Wurtzel. Producer: Battle of Broadway. American production executive, with Fox from 1914 as private secretary to William Fox. From the mid-1930s until 1949, he served as head producer for the 20th Century Fox B-unit. His modestly budgeted films invariably showed a profit. Artistic merit never played a part in Wurtzel's production ethics. In the 1979 biography of his father Alexander Korda ("Charmed Lives"), Michael Korda described Wurtzel as...