Local records show the arrival of several Jewish families with the names Friedman or Fuchs in Tolcsva, though finding which family was that of William Fox was a more difficult matter. In the end, one of the missing pieces of the puzzle came from a biography of Fox by the writer Upton Sinclair who wrote that the studio director's father ran a general store. Another piece came from tax records that showed a change of names at a location on 10 Petőfi Street from "Friedman" - William Fuch's mother was Anna Friedman - to "Fuchs". As the addresses of the other two Fuchs families in the records were too small to house a general store, the researchers assumed it most likely that Fox's family lived in the residence at 10 Petőfi Street.
One of the oldest tenants at the address even recalled a store operating there long ago.
Fox was just an infant when he and his mother followed his father to the United States. By the time Fox was just 25, he had opened his first cinema, in New York.
Though he never returned to his birthplace, Fox commissioned a film reporter to visit Tolcsva and make a record of the place for his family.
Fox, who left an indelible mark on the global film industry, died in 1952.
Bokor said there are plans to refurbish Fox's birthplace and set up a kind of memorial at the place of his birth.
Adolf Zukor, who was instrumental in creating Paramount Pictures, was also born in Hungary, not far from the birthplace of William Fox.
