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...Bowery (Twentieth Century). For his first production since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before...
Baby Face (Warner) is notable mainly because, when the Hays organization ordered portions of it changed, it caused one of the studio rows between Darryl Zanuck and Harry Warner as a result of which Zanuck quit Warners, formed a new company called Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. to release films through United Artists. A morose and timidly salacious study of the life and loves of a saloon keeper's daughter (Barbara Stanwyck), it shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having...
...full salaries to be resumed. Only studio which did not keep the bargain was Warner Brothers. President Harry Warner said the company could not resume the old scale until April 17, a week later than the day set by the Academy. The production chief of Warner Brothers' studio, Darryl Francis Zanuck, found himself in an awkward position. He had persuaded Warners' indignant employes to take the cut in the first place. He resigned (TIME, April 24) without demanding a settlement for his contract which had 4½ years to run, soon announced plans to form an independent producing...
...Police Dog Rin Tin Tin. They got work with Warner Brothers by acting out their stories, taking turns impersonating Rin Tin Tin. Small, sharp-faced Zanuck quickly progressed to a successful series of boxing stories; in three years he was studio dictator. When Warner Brothers merged with First National, Darryl Zanuck was placed in complete control of both studios. He has proved his ability by keeping average production costs for Warner pictures down to $250,000, producing such hits as The Jazz Singer, Disraeli, Doorway to Hell (which started the gangster cycle), Forty-Second Street (currently reviving the vogue...
...Darryl Zanuck, for five years general production manager of Warner Bros. First National Studios, resigned "due to a disagreement of policy in company management." The emergency board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences had ruled the bank holiday cut of 50% in studio salaries should be ended by Warner Bros, and full pay be restored April 10. When Warner Bros, refused to restore full pay until April 17, Mr. Zanuck, who had given his word to the employes, resigned...