Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This interpretation was obviously out of reach of the modulated 1941 counterpart of Valentino-downy, dark-eyed Tyrone Power. In Producer Darryl Zanuck's expensive, Technicolored remake of Blood and Sand, nice Mr. Power acts as if he were just acting. He is. Tyrone Power, as many a U.S. female knows, is cute. Neither Juan Gallardo nor Rudolph Valentino nor any other Latin male was ever cute...
...Great American Broadcast (20th Century-Fox) is Darryl Zanuck's conception of how radio broadcasting was born. According to his version, it was sired by Jack Oakie in a thunderstorm on the roof of an abandoned sausage factory on the Jersey flats, with an assist from a barnstorming aviator (John Payne) and a nightclub singer (Alice Faye...
...Darryl F. Zanuck, deeply moved by a chance to aid fallen humanity (at regular admission prices), announced that Hollywood would do the unbelievable--make a picture of "Tobacco Road," worthy of the book, as great as the play, equal to the "Grapes of Wrath." John Ford was selected for director. Charley Grapewin, one of the finest character actors in films, was given the role of Jeeter Lester. Gene Tierney was selected for the sluttish Lester daughter after a far-flung talent search. The best photographers in Hollywood, superb make-up artists, perfectly realistic sets were assembled. Hollywood held its breath...
...That Night in Rio, Producer Darryl Zanuck sent an outline of the story to the Brazilian embassy in Washington for approval and suggestions before shooting started, consulted with the Whitney Committee's committees in Hollywood kept an expert handy...
...years Hollywood shied away from the play's degeneracy. But last year Producer Darryl Zanuck managed to disinfect John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath to the satisfaction of the Hays office and the family trade. Soon Producer Zanuck paid more than $200,000 for Tobacco Road, put his Grapes of Wrath crew on the job (Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, Director John Ford), got Charley Grapewin, who played Grandpa Joad in The Grapes, to play the slovenly, bearded farmer jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road...