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...Snows of Kilimanjaro (20th Century-Fox) is likely to remind most adult males of their more lurid adolescent daydreams. Produced by Darryl Zanuck and vaguely based on the Ernest Hemingway short story, the movie is a Technicolor travelogue that ranges from Africa to Europe to backwoods Michigan, a sort of scenic railway running through a Tunnel of Love...
...calls Charlie (pronounced tsolly) and George (pronounced zuds), are reputed to top the takes of even such mighty families as the Shuberts and the Schencks. As president of Twentieth Century-Fox, Spyros heads the second biggest producing company in the world,* whose Hollywood studio, run by Vice President Darryl Zanuck, turns out some 40 feature pictures a year. As head of National Theaters, comprising some 550 houses scattered around the West, Charlie runs the nation's second largest theater chain. With younger brother George, who is president of a 70-house chain in the East, the Skouras family controls...
...young aircraft worker. The marriage lasted ten months and then Marilyn set out to conquer Hollywood. She studied stenography, got by as a part-time model and a movie bit player. Director John Huston let her play a small part in The Asphalt Jungle. When Fox Production Boss Darryl Zanuck saw her scenes he cried: "That's the girl we let go! Get her back...
...restaurant started off modestly. The two largest sponsors -Jock Whitney and the late Bob Benchley, whom Mike had known during his New York nightlife era-subscribed only $350 apiece; Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck, only $300 each. The total take was $7,200, $1,800 short of what Mike had hoped...
...Darryl Zanuck told him. "The chips are down, there is no middle ground." "I was a nominee for an Academy Award." Kazan said, "and yet I knew that no studio in town would give...