Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote stories for Esquire, worked on scenarios for the movies. He needed the money to keep his daughter Frances Scott ("Scottie") at Vassar, where she is now a junior. But when Zanuck asked him to do some work on his forthcoming Brooklyn Bridge, Fitzgerald rebelled. Said he: "You've already made that picture ten times, I can't add anything...
...Alley (20th Century-Fox) is Cinema Historian Darryl Zanuck's latest peek into the annals of U. S. song. His previous rummages have covered popular music from early Stephen Foster days to latest Irving Berlin. Tin Pan Alley, going to no extremes in either history or histrionics, merely parenthesizes a few years before and during World War I, punctuates them with such pleasant oldtime numbers as Moonlight Bay, K-K-K-Katy. A few anachronisms like Honeysuckle Rose and The Sheik of Araby are also thrown in, on the Hollywood theory that anything older than...
Since the story is no more than an excuse to keep the performers occupied between numbers, Producer Zanuck treats it like an ugly stepchild. Its principal function is to present the cheesecake of the cast-blonde, lethargic Alice Faye and blonde, lithe Betty Grable-as the sister act of Katie and Lily Blane. Capitalizing on their more obvious assets, the film sets Alice and Betty wriggling and crooning in cellophane hula skirts and harem costumes. Clearly neither of the girls cares to hand over the picture to the other, and their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye...
...musical is still the medium where Producer Zanuck is most at home. Although he dropped his sparkling early tongue-in-cheek technique (Thanks a Million) in favor of opulence, he still knows how to keep the good songs ringing clear...
...rule on the 20th Century-Fox lot ended fortnight ago when Fox announced the acquisition of a new, independent producer-the first person to have a hand in that studio's "A" picture output since Darryl Zanuck took over in 1935. He was highflying, tight-lipped Howard Hughes, whose Texas fortune has been behind two notable cinema events, Hell's Angels (1930) and Scarface...