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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Darryl F., Zanuck has glorified a chapter of America's past without the services of Don Ameche, and the result is a surprisingly pleasant though simple tale. Richard Greene's broad shoulders take on the burdens of an inventor, and as Robert Fulton he covers the New York waterfront of 1807 with punches and an English accent until his "follyboat" is a success. Although he suffers the common fate of Hollywood history-heroes and looks about half the forty-two years he should have, Greene does manage to show enough gusto and sincerity to make his role fill...
...good cry over the hardships of the Okies. But people who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one. For The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book. It is certainly the best picture Darryl F. Zanuck has produced or Nunnally Johnson scripted. It would be the best John Ford had directed if he had not already made The Informer...
...Scraps of the Land of Memory and the Kingdom of the Future survive, somewhat transformed by Darryl F. Zanuck's magic wand...
...others: International Business Machines' Thomas Watson: $453,440. Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace: $378,698. American Tobacco's George Hill: $331,348. General Motors' William Knudsen: $303,400. Cinemactress Claudette Colbert: $301,944. Cinemactor Warner Baxter: $279,807. Producer Darryl Zanuck: $265,000. Radio's Bing Crosby: $260,000. Theatre Operator Spyros P. Skouras...
Busy Producer Darryl F. Zanuck takes time out from the drum-thumping phases of U. S. history (as seen and heard in Drums Along the Mohawk) to do a long, lavish, Technicolored, cinema biography of U. S. Composer Stephen Foster. Foster, while drinking himself to death, turned out most of the best U. S. folk songs. In pictures about composers a vacant look, head noddings and rhythmic hand flourishes denote musical inspiration. With these appropriate symptoms Don Ameche, as Stephen Foster, is shown conceiving his songs. Al Jolson (Christy the minstrel man) sings them, manages to mar their simplicity with...