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...nobody's surprise, Gentleman's Agreement was named the year's best picture. It also won Elia Kazan an Oscar for his direction. In accepting the Oscar for the film, 20th Century-Fox's long-memoried Darryl Zanuck firmly reminded everyone: "This makes up for an earlier disappointment . . . still a picture of which I am proud, Wilson...
...Hair was only temporarily postponed . . . and the film starts production Feb. 9. . . It is my belief that the so-called atmosphere of fear exists only in the minds of those who wish us to believe there is an atmosphere of fear. I am convinced that progressive picturemakers, such as Darryl Zanuck and Samuel Goldwyn, will continue to [combine] what they believe to be good picturemaking with courage and a point of view. . . . Here at RKO we are continuing to plan pictures that we hope will be good films and still have something to say. It is my belief there...
...chance to earn some badly needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun and Darryl Zanuck's Forever Amber, both of which had been frowned on by the Legion of Decency...
Louis B. Mayer was anxious to sign him up for a seven-year contract. Darryl Zanuck was eager to trust him with the leading role in a $3,000,000 production (Keys of the Kingdom), regardless of the fact that Peck was unknown and unwilling even to make a screen test. David Selznick, who now claims to have recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services...
...Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...