Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal function is obviously to rescue Faulkner from the moiling unmotivated mess of his plot. Actresses Remick and Odetta sometimes polarize the disorder with a powerful, paradoxical image of salvation: the black earth-mother hanged on a flimsy white flibbertigibbet. But on the whole, Producer Richard (son of Darryl) Zanuck's attempt to clean up Faulkner for the family seems a bit like trying to smear the whole of Yoknapatawpha County with underarm deodorant. It might just possibly be done, but it sure does seem a peculiar thing...
Died. E. Maurice ("Buddy") Adler, 52, Darryl Zanuck's successor as Twentieth Century-Fox production boss in 1956, an astute judge and developer of new talent, including Joanne Woodward and Pat Boone, the producer of such box-office hits as Love Is a Many-Splendor~ed Thing, The Diary of Anne Frank, South Pacific and Columbia's 1953 Academy Award-winning From Here to Eternity; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Told by Fox President Spyros Skouras in 1957, "I'm giving you $53 million; let's see what you can do with it this year," Adler...
...reporting a Zanuck film, Crack in the Mirror, TIME'S critic wrote, "Justice, however, is not done in the screen credits, where Producer Zanuck, under the pseudonym, Mark Canfield, generously accepts full responsibility for the screenplay." Nor is justice done by TIME to the author of the novel, Drame dans un Miroir, on which the film is based. That...
Crack in the Mirror (20th Century-Fox) was produced by Darryl Zanuck, a great man for the special angle. As production boss of 20th Century-Fox, he made plenty of splash and cash with controversial pictures about insanity (The Snake Pit), anti-Semitism (Gentlemen's Agreement) and the color line (Pinky). Since setting up as an independent producer, he has made or sponsored films about interracial romance (Island in the Sun), impotence (The Sun Also Rises), homosexuality (Compulsion), and a man who was crazy about elephants (The Roots of Heaven). In Crack in the Mirror, a murder meller made...
Justice, however, is not done in the screen credits, where Producer Zanuck, under the pseudonym, Mark Canfield, generously accepts full responsibility for the screenplay. Actually, it took eight writers besides Zanuck to make this complicated mess...