Word: zanuck
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...John Ford, George Cukor, George Stevens, Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Busby Berkeley, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch and Victor Fleming. Behind them were the producers, who were far more important then than they are now, men such as David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl F. Zanuck, Pandro S. Berman, Hal Wallis and Arthur Hornblow...
Intrigue is not new to Fox. Indeed, the dramas inside the company have often been more riveting than those that have come out as movies. Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders, caused hearts to pound just by walking down the hall. Zanuck left in 1956, but returned in triumph six years later, following a boardroom coup in the wake of the Cleopatra debacle. He made his son Richard president, then kicked him out, only to be forced aside himself a few months later. (Richard had another stint at Fox, and coproduced such films as The Sting and Jaws.) While...
...figure fees that his work has commanded. He emphasizes instead the pervasive uncertainty that seeps through all stages of moviemaking. He sets "the single most important fact" about his subject in capital letters: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. Films that cannot fail do so, disastrously. "We're home," Richard Zanuck once cabled his father Darryl after a movie preview. "Better than Sound of Music." The object of this enthusiasm was Star!, which Goldman describes as "the Edsel of 20th Century-Fox." Success is equally impossible to foresee; the author rehearses the litany of studios that said no to Star Wars, Raiders...
DIED. Virginia Fox Zanuck, 83, once Buster Keaton's leading lady, Mack Sennett's tiniest bathing beauty, and in 1924 Movie Tycoon Darryl F. Zanuck's storybook bride (although they did not live happily ever after); of a lung infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. The petite (4 ft. 9 in.) Virginia Fox gave up her acting career when she met Zanuck, then a struggling scriptwriter, on a blind date. A renowned Hollywood hostess, she zealously sang his praises for years, but the marriage was later marred by Darryl's persistent extramarital affairs and by much publicized...
Steven Spielberg did grow up. He became rich and famous as the director who enjoyed playing with sharks, spacemen and snakes-and turning these fearsome critters into the stuff of blockbusters. Jaws, which Spielberg and Producer Richard Zanuck had feared might prove to be "a shark with turkey feathers," terrified moviegoers to the tune of $410 million. Close Encounters of the Third Kind built a sense of biblical awe around man's first meeting with beings from outer space and put another $250 million into the till. Last year Raiders of the Lost Ark sent Saturday-matinee chills down...