Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Twentieth Century-Fox set out to make a $2,000,000 picture about Ferdinand de Lesseps last spring, Producer Darryl Zanuck entrusted the leading role to 23-year-old Tyrone Power, who barely looks his age. Instead of portraying him as a domestic hero, Suez not only failed to give Ferdinand de Lesseps any children but even failed to indicate that he ever married...
...Miles Mander) as he becomes Prime Minister, are the climax of "Suez," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. Yet if the doughty express, veiled, escorted, guarded, had personally visited her "ditch," she could scarcely have received a less realistic picture of how it was built than Darry I. F. Zanuck gives the American public. The workmen, the soldiers, the treachery of the Arabs and have of the simoon are all shown, but the audience is too far away to see any of the sweat and suffering and sorrow that went into the canal. Instead, Tyrone Power mopes about Europe...
...squeals, floods, twilight and the expenditure of $250,000. In itself sufficient to make Suez rank as one of the major spectacles of the year, the zobah-hah is only an incident in the latest addition to the series of heroic-sized historical plays to which Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck, once a specialist in turning mere newspaper headlines into screen plays, has recently made his forte. Highly romanticized, handsomely decorated and reasonably entertaining, Suez shows Tyrone Power as Ferdinand de Lesseps, successively overcoming the obstacles provided by the climate, Napoleon III, his love for the Empress Eugénie (Loretta...
...technique. Otherwise, his performance is well up to the standard of similar roles in Lloyd's of London and Marie Antoinette. In a supporting cast which includes Joseph Schildkraut, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce and Director Miles Mander, drafted for the role of Disraeli, the ablest member is Producer Zanuck's latest Continental star. Less mannered than unfortunate little Simone Simon, Annabella (real name: Suzanne Charpentier) chatters intelligibly, looks pretty in gamine or Empire costume and chokes to death affectingly during the zobah-hah. Most impressive shot: cave-in of a canal-side cliff dynamited by Turkish guerrillas...
Safety in Numbers (Twentieth Century-Fox). Further excitement in the lively career of Producer Darryl Zanuck's profitable Jones family, occasioned mostly by Mayor Jones's attempts to outwit a gang of swindlers who have been selling his townsfolk worthless stock...