Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
...These canned goods were the best kind of an investment if costs went higher and box office stayed up. But if box office skidded much more, it might be hard to make a profit on expensive pictures from the can. 20th Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck, with $12 million already sunk in Forever Amber and Captain from Castile, was worried enough to postpone a third costume spectacle...
...must be aware by this time, Darryl F. Zanuck and the rest of the 20th Century Fox bunch have sunk untold millions into the salaries, set, costumes, and the rest of the impedimenta involved in this latest production of theirs. To help secure such a huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort...
...belonged to no one man. Averell Harriman, as board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, had a hand in it. He persuaded his fellow directors that the U.P., hungry for prestige and passengers, should build a resort at Sun Valley. Hollywooders (including Norma Shearer, Claudette Colbert and Darryl F. Zanuck) made it fashionable. Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson hired Austria's famed skier, Hannes Schneider, and spent $1,000,000 to build his home town, North Conway, N. H., into one of the East's major ski resorts (TIME...
...operating expenses. Mary and Charlie therefore began taking in new partners. But something always went wrong. Usually, Mary and Charlie thought the newcomers tried to run things too much their own way. So the newcomers had to go. In rapid succession, such notables as Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, Alexander Korda went through U.A.'s revolving door...