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...Number Can Play (MGM) sets out to prove that gambling is a true test of character. If it is, the hero (Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind...
Cinemogul Darryl Zanuck, off to the Riviera, looked forward to some hobnobbing with the international set. "I like them," he told a columnist. "They don't talk show business ... In fact, most of them never saw a movie and think a movie is something you see through a peep glass after you put a dime in the slot...
...production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger's European junket would also lay the groundwork for a film in Italy starring his wife, Joan Bennett. Of other U.S. producers working abroad, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck leads the field in pictures already made, and will have six going at once this summer-in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Africa, Italy and England...
When Hollywood's Producer-Director Anatole Litvak and Producer Darryl Zanuck gambled on filming The Snake Pit (TIME, Dec. 20), they knew that it might never be shown in Britain-a risk that could make the difference between profit and loss. They took the long shot that the movie would get by the British censorship ban on scenes within insane asylums. Last week, the gamble began...
Russian-born Joe Schenck was one of the somebodies-and he has made much more than a million. He controls an estimated $50 million worth of theaters and a big chunk of stock in 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., which he and Darryl Zanuck formed...