Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delilah, sends Hollywood back to the Bible for another censor-proof tale of a strong man's weakness for a beautiful woman. Like the Cecil B. DeMille opus, the new epic is a Technicolored potion concocted from equal parts of sex, spectacle and religion. But Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's mixture, neither so rich nor so heady as its predecessor, comes dangerously close to serving as a sleeping potion...
...producer, who began his career in his teens with a homemade newsreel camera, has never made a complete movie in Hollywood and has no use for the place. After producing four of his films for 20th Century-Fox, Individualist de Rochemont clashed with Individualist Darryl F. Zanuck, the studio's boss, over publicity and screen credits. He quit, moved over to M-G-M and quit again when the studio wanted him to make Lost Boundaries in its own way, i.e., with fictitious violence and a budget three times as large as the $500,000 he spent making...
...Darryl Zanuck go to NBCTV...
According to Skouras' plan, employees will be cut 25% on the part of their salaries between $500 and $1,000 a week, 35% between $1,000 and $2,000, a full 50% on everything over $2,000. The total slice for Production Boss Darryl Zanuck, who had agreed in advance to the trimmed-down wage scale: $102,700 from his $260,000 annual salary...
...finally managed to buy the movie rights to one version of the song* for $1,000. Then he registered the title, for a prospective movie. To his dismay, he found that another Hollywood producer had beaten him to the draw. Fifteen minutes after the general's speech, Darryl Zanuck had registered the same title...