Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twentieth Century-Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck, who likes to buck both taboos and competition, had groomed Pinky for shooting this spring as his "personal production" of 1949, with John Ford as director and Jeanne Grain as star. Last week Zanuck looked around him and ordered Pinky into immediate production...
...briskly businesslike and determinedly cheerful. Paramount's Henry Ginsberg said last week that the so-called "depression" is largely "psychological." MGM's Dore Schary says with assurance: "We all know what the problems are and what must be done about them." Twentieth Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck likes to think about the day in the not-so-distant future when television will be an exciting new adjunct of a busier Hollywood...
...business and social highlights of Hollywood last week had very little flavor of hard times. At the huge testimonial dinner ($15 a plate) naming Darryl Zanuck "Man of the Year," there was no noticeable scarcity of mutation mink and diamonds among the 1,500 diners. The only damp spot in this glittering evening was the five minutes during which Georgia's Ellis Arnall got off to a belligerent start as president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers. He scolded Eric Johnston and brashly challenged him to a debate on monopolies and the movies; he proposed that misbehaving...
...hatched the airline from their wartime partnership in the Thunderbird cadet flying schools (TIME, June 9, 1941) and their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...
Hollywood people explained that they were putting blocked lire to work. Prince of Foxes, which was being filmed in Florence, Venice, Siena and Rome - and using thousands of extras - would cost $3,000,000 (half of it in U.S. dollars). Anywhere else, according to Producer Darryl Zanuck, it would cost $10,000,000. Zanuck said that he would not "stoop to sweatshop practices . . . We are not in Italy . . . to cash in on another country's depressed condition...