Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemies. Producers may be defined as glorified executives who wear immaculate street clothes, sit in luxurious offices, hold conferences around shiny tables and concern themselves primarily with Ideas. Producers' ideas are mostly about money. Top producers in Hollywood currently are Twentieth Century-Fox's small, dynamic Darryl Zanuck, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's aging, pompous Louis B. Mayer, Warner Brothers' Harry Wrarner and Hal Wallis, Jock Whitney's placid David Oliver Selznick, United Artists' socially conscious Walter Wanger and legendary Sam Goldwyn. Producers may be onetime writers, theatre owners, book peddlers or glove salesmen. Their...
There has never been much doubt about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...
...season has been pretty rough on Stevenson-adding a blonde Kozatsky dancer to the Soviet's Treasure Island (TIME, Jan. 31), flaunting an unimagined Hollywood ingenue in a Technicolored sarong in Ebb Tide (TIME, Nov. 29)-but in Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck. the better to display a fine figure of a lass named Arleen Whelan, has shifted many of the novel's best scenes to strange and shadowy positions, has relegated to the attic the memorable ball-and-cutlass siege of the Brig Covenant's roundhouse, has made storied Patriot...
Until Director H. Bruce Humberstone discovered her and took her to Producer Zanuck for a screen test, green-eyed, red-haired Arleen Whelan was a Hollywood manicurist. A lithe, natural lass with Celtic charm and an unaccountable suggestion of a double chin, she was soon rumored to be David Selznick's choice for Scarlett O'Hara. But Zanuck had already signed her. In Kidnapped her voice lacks depth, except when she is singing a Scottish ballad with Maxine Sullivan flavor. She acts as if she were not quite at home in Scotland or Hollywood...
Four Men and a Prayer (Twentieth Century-Fox) demonstrates in brisk, British-cut, melodramatic fashion: 1) that the sun never sets on Producer Darryl F. Zanuck (Clive of India, The House of Rothschild, Lloyd's of London), and 2) that Producer Zanuck can excuse the world munitions ring for any atrocity except an affront to British family honor...