Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed Rita for a dancing bit in a picture Spencer Tracy would like to forget: Dante's Inferno, one of the worst big-budget movies ever made. After the picture she became a Fox Wampus Baby. But at that point Darryl Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull...
...DARRYL F. ZANUCK Chairman, Research Council Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Hollywood, Calif...
...Yank, too little R.A.F. The business of getting a London cabaret queen (bountiful Betty Grable-not the slip of a girl she used to be) and Pilot Power together is so touchy that there is small time left for R.A.F.orts. Overdeveloped though it is, the story (concocted by Producer Darryl Zanuck) notably avoids most of the ruts of Hollywood's aviation epics (e.g., Tyrone Power does not even become a hero...
What Nye thought of the movies was no secret. He had publicly accused the companies of trying to make the U.S. "punch-drunk with propaganda to push her into war." He had accused Jewish and foreign-born producers-Louis B. Mayer, Adolph Zukor, Darryl Zanuck, Sam Goldwyn, Murray Silverstone and others-emotionally agitated by Hitler, of being responsible. Said he: primarily responsible for movie war propaganda were "four names, each that of one of the Jewish faith, each one foreign-born." Yet he denied that he was antiSemitic, said "I remain, as yet at least, bitterly opposed to the injection...
...this fiscal impasse, Moon has used up seven woefully unimaginative tunes, the pneumatic assets of the Misses Grable, Landis, Cobina Wright Jr., the semitropical color and languor of Miami, the devilishly clever, coy stock-in-trade that passes for acting with Mr. Ameche, and $1,000,000 worth of Darryl Zanuck's money...