Word: zanuck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both in image and in action. Never for an instant does it whirl along on wings of epic elan; generally it just bumps from scene to ponderous scene on the square wheels of exposition. Part of what is wrong went wrong in the cutting room, and for that Darryl Zanuck, boss of 20th Century-Fox, is possibly to blame. But much of what is wrong was wrong in the script, and for that Chief Scenarist Mankiewicz must wear the ears. Part One seems on the whole a competent and entertaining picture, but in Part Two, Mankiewicz goes wildly wrong...
...Darryl Zanuck, president of 2Oth Century-Fox, is pleased with them. "I think the Taylor-Burton association is quite constructive for our organization," he says. But what if the Taylor-Burton association were to collapse before Cleopatra opens? The picture would be an anachronism while it is still...
...demote D.Z. Darryl Zanuck is the president of 20th Century-Fox, not a producer. Your photograph [March i] shows him approving the shooting of the scenes that Producer Walter Wanger and Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz were restrained from doing properly by a former management and that are now being sponsored by the new president...
Seberg. Olivia de Havilland, et al.-leads a stuffy, bourgeois life. Fine old Gary Grant is now living in Darryl Zanuck's Left Bank house, where his evening routine is dinner and television...
Tackles & Buttons. As the movies flourished, so did the hotel. Its patrons built their homes around it: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford set their Pickfair high in the hills above it, so did Barrymore, Harold Lloyd and Tom Mix. Will Rogers and Darryl Zanuck played polo nearby, stopped so often at the hotel bar that it was and is still called the Polo Lounge. There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room...