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4 unusual facts about Marshall Naify


Marshall Naify

Marshall Naify (March 23, 1920 – April 19, 2000) was a motion picture and media tycoon who was a long-term chairman of the board of United Artists and later became founder and co-chairman of the board of Todd-AO, the largest independent post-production sound studio in the United States which worked on Apollo 13 and other major films.

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In 1999, Marshall Naify married Lily Cates, widow of director/producer Joseph Cates and mother of Phoebe Cates.

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Marshall Naify and his brother Robert Naify were members of The Forbes 400 beginning in 1987 with an estimated combined net worth of $4.3 billion.

Robert Naify

Along with his brother Marshall Naify, members of The Forbes Four Hundred since 1987, with an estimated worth of $4.3 billion, they merged the family's theater chain with United Artists Theater Circuit, early pioneer of cable television in the 1950s, eventually inheriting entire the movie theater empire.



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