Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Produced by 20th Century-Fox Studio Boss Darryl Zanuck, who made Pinky, the movie does not deal with the Negro in the Deep South (Intruder in the Dust) or in the isolated South Pacific (Home of the Brave), or with the specialized problem of the Negro trying to pass as white (Lost Boundaries). The story comes directly to grips with racial prejudice in what is presumably an enlightened area of the U.S.: a big city north of the Mason-Dixon line...
...have often wondered whether people recognize that major achievement is possible in movies outside the field of acting. Your [June 12] article on Darryl Zanuck . . . was a serious approach to a Hollywood biography, instead of the "intellectual wise guy" attitude that is almost standard with magazines...
...film wrapped around Darryl Zanuck's head on your June 12 cover wouldn't pass through any projector anywhere. All movie film has four perforations to each frame...
...quite 15, Darryl enlisted in the Nebraska National Guard after taking the braces off his teeth so that he could lie more convincingly about his age. He spent almost two years in service, on the Mexican border and in France, dispatching more letters to his grandfather. A veteran at 17, he lost patience with school and determined to be a writer, like O. Henry. Meanwhile, he sold shirts and newspaper subscriptions, worked as a rivet catcher in the shipyards and a poster tinter in a theater lobby. Writing furiously, he sold a story called Mad Desire to Physical Culture...
...pictures grosses as much as Western Union does on it, we can all retire.") By 3:30 or 4 p.m., he darts to his projection room for a look at rushes, wardrobe and make-up tests. By 4:30 he calls up his children-Richard Darryl, 15, Susan Marie, 16, and Mrs. Darrilyn Zanuck Jacks-for a fatherly chat...