Sol M. Wurtzel
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Sol M. Wurtzel (September 12, 1881 - April 9, 1958) was an American motion picture producer.
Born in New York City, New York, Sol M. Wurtzel worked as an executive assistant to William Fox, founding owner of the Fox Film Corporation. In 1917, Fox sent him to California to oversee the studio's West Coast productions.
Wurtzel eventually became involved in production and between 1932 and 1949 he produced more than one hundred and fifty films including a large number of the Charlie Chan series as well as other successes such as "Bright Eyes" in 1934, starring Shirley Temple and featuring her trademark song: "On The Good Ship Lollipop", 1935's Dante's Inferno.
On his passing in 1958, Sol Wurtzel was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
- "William Fox, Sol M. Wurtzel and the Early Fox Film Corporation" McFarland and Company, February 2001 ISBN 0-7864-0857-X