Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back," he said. "This is no time for ego inflation." Oboler pressagents, used to getting almost daily suggestions from the Prodigy, were inclined to treat this as another one; but pressagents have no souls. The fact remained that Oboler, who brought to radio drama the unabashed showmanship of a Zanuck, was doing his Plays for Americans free and on his own motion (seconded and guided by NBC). The first one, Johnny Quinn, U.S.N., had its hokey qualities, but it was well directed (by Oboler), nicely played, and it turned a wise guy into a hero for a better reason than...
...Darryl Zanuck dashed into a polo scrimmage on a Hollywood field, broke his nose when it caught the ball...
Week-End in Havana (20th Century Fox), Darryl Zanuck's third Good-Neighborly jaunt to a Latin American capital, is a Technicolored fortnight of lazing about, with songs, dances and Carmen Miranda. In its way, it is pleasantly subtropical...
...publicity experts, miscellaneous key men. Rulers of the elite are seven top executives of Hollywood's Big Four: Louis B. Mayer and Edgar J. Mannix, of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Paramount's Y. (for Young) Frank Freeman; 20th Century-Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck (now appealing a three-year sentence for income-tax evasion); Warner Bros.' Harry M. and Jack L. Warner...
...Rosten, "between the founder of the House of Vanderbilt [Cornelius, steamboat owner] and the founder of the House of Mayer [Louis B., theater owner], between the first Warner [Harry M., butcher's son] and the first Astor [John Jacob, butcher's son], ... In 50 years names like Zanuck, Mannix, and Selznick may well be great. . . . 'Honour,' says an ancient proverb, 'is but ancient riches...