Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cares chiefly about acting as an art, there will hardly be enough opportunity in commercial Hollywood to keep him there much longer. Désirée, for instance, which will be released next month, is another big slick costume historical with no artistic nonsense about it. Producer Darryl Zanuck claims that Brando turns in one of his greatest performances as Napoleon, but Marlon modestly doubts it. "Most of the time," he says. "I just let the make-up play the part." Marlon's next role, Sky Masterson in the film version of Guys and Dolls, will give...
Twentieth-Century Fox not only got there first with CinemaScope, but has virtually captured the field. Its wide screens are already installed in just over 6,000 theaters, justifying the faith Fox President Spyros P. Skouras and Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck had in the new process. The first CinemaScope film, The Robe, has already grossed around $21 million at home and abroad and is crowding the alltime record of $35 million for Gone With the Wind. Another testimonial came last week in Fox's earnings report for the first half of the year. Net climbed...
Married. Nightclub Singer Susan Marie Zanuck, 20, daughter of 20th Century-Fox Production Boss Darryl F. Zanuck; and Egyptian-born Fox Producer Andre (Powder River, O. Henry's Full House} Hakim, 34; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...content with the dual job, making a variety of well-turned pictures in a variety of styles (The Grapes of Wrath, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, How to Marry a Millionaire). Then, says Johnson, 56, "I got the impulse to direct. I said to [20th Century-Fox Boss Darryl] Zanuck: 'What about directing Night Peopled Zanuck said, 'What will Peck say?' " Johnson checked with Actor Peck. "He looked kind of startled and said, 'Why not?' So I became a director...
...sharp-eyed and lively as a sandpiper, flits in and out of restaurants and nightclubs picking up tidbits on kings, stars, villains and dog-biters. His office files bulge with more than 20,000 of their names from A (Fred Allen, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Achesoh) to Z (Darryl Zanuck, Vera Zorina. Babe Didrikson Zaharias). The names are his cast of characters in anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts...