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American film studio executive

For the screenwriter, see Nick Schenk.

Nicholas M. Schenck (14 November 1880,^[1]Rybinsk, Russia – 4 March 1969, Florida) was a Russian-American film studio executive and businessman.

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Biography

Early life

One of seven children, Schenck was born to a Jewish household^[2] in Rybinsk, a town on the Volga River in the Yaroslavl Governorate of Tsarist Russia.

With his parents, he and his brothers, George and Joseph, emigrated to the United States in 1892^[1] where they settled in a tenement on New York's Lower East Side. Subsequently, he relocated to Harlem, the population of which at that time consisted primarily of Jewish and Italian immigrants.

Upon his arrival in the United States, he and his older brother Joseph worked as a team running errands and selling newspapers while studying at the New York College of Pharmacy at night.^[3]

They subsequently began working in