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I live for the day when someone publishes a list of each studio and all its contract players, along with the span of years when each actor was there.

Until then, for DVD searching purposes, can anyone add names to this list for 20th Century Fox?

• Don Ameche
  Dana Andrews
  Theda Bara
  Warner Baxter
  Jeanne Crain
  Linda Darnell
  James Dunn
  Charles Farrell
  Alice Faye
  Henry Fonda
  Janet Gaynor
  Betty Grable
  June Haver
  Sonja Henie
  Jayne Mansfield
  Carmen Miranda
  Marilyn Monroe
  Sheree North
  Warner Oland
  John Payne
  Gregory Peck
  Tyrone Power
  Will Rogers
  Shirley Temple
  Gene Tierney
  Robert Wagner
  Clifton Webb
  Cornel Wilde

Also, I know that these actors made films for Fox but I don't know if they were contracted or loaned:

• Joan Collins
  Rex Harrison
  Roddy McDowall
  Dorothy McGuire
  George O'Brien
  Maureen O'Hara (was she tied to RKO and was a frequent Fox loanout?)
  Debra Paget
  Anthony Quinn
  Vincent Price
  Thelma Ritter
  Cesar Romero

I found a few. You might also try to find studio histories. There are at least a few: The Studio by John Gregory Dunne, The Fox That Got Away by Stephen Silverman, and Twentieth Century-Fox: a corporate and financial history by Aubrey Solomon.

Note: some of these might have been non-exclusive contracts. I know that Fox loaned out some of these actors during the time of their contractual obligations.

Richard Egan
Stephen Boyd (1956-1963) These tended to be seven-year contracts
Maureen O'Sullivan
Stepin Fetchit
Jeffrey Hunter
Dale Evans
Simone Simon
Anne Baxter
Glenn Langan
Jack Palance
Loretta Young
George Sanders
Joseph Cotten (1950-53)
Richard Widmark (1947-1954)
John Payne
Gloria Gordon
Sean Connery
Celeste Holm
Perry Como (1943-50) Did anyone want to know that one?
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Rex Harrison was indeed under contract at Fox for at least seven years.
Vincent Price was also signed
Joan Collins

A couple more:
Carole Lombard
Peter Lorre

do you know if Gene Lockhart was under-contract or was he just a loan-out. i know Miracle on 34th Street , Leave Her To Heaven and Henry Hathaway's House on 92nd Street were FOX pictures.

Couldn't tell you, offhand. This topic isn't something I have a great interest in -- I was just in the rare mood the other day to do some gratis research to kill a bit of time (sorry).