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Such an epic must some day find its Homer. At the moment, it has Darryl Zanuck. At 60, Producer Zanuck is known as an organizational genius who for 20 years was chief of production at 20th Century-Fox and is currently president of the company-long an ailing entity that now, after two years of playing Antony to Cleopatra, seems dangerously close to collapse (TIME...
...corporation back in the black, Zanuck boldly decided to go for broke. In 1960 he shelled out $175,000 for the screen rights to The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history (800,000 copies) of Operation Overlord. In the course of the next year he bought up five scriptwriters, five directors, 37 military advisers and 42-no, it's not a misprint-42 stars.* Then, to the horror of economy-minded Congressmen, Zanuck somehow managed, in effect, to rent several thousand U.S. servicemen and 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing...
Ever since he took over 20th Century-Fox a month ago and became Hollywood's newest general, Darryl Zanuck has been playing martial airs to urge his studio into combat. Last week the music stopped and the casualty lists appeared: > Fired were four topFox executives whose brains have been costing the company at least half a million a year...
...Hollywood studio, in a move that will mean the suspension of more than half of the studio's 600 employees, or "all studio personnel not now actively engaged in editing and completing Cleopatra or assigned to future television projects or preparing screen plays." It meant that General Zanuck would have fewer troops under his command, but he obviously feels that his army must travel light...
...commercials, talking as everything from a spark plug to a cereal. He is the entire cast of Tom and Jerry cartoons. He was Captain Swift on TV's Popeye show. During the TV run of the Howdy Doody show, he contributed 50 different characters. For Darryl Zanuck's forthcoming The Longest Day, Swift supplied the sheared-cornflower accents of Dwight David Eisenhower. He is the man who says, "I'm a Newport smoker forever"; who tells viewers to use one dab of Brylcreem, not two; who introduced the Chinese baby who could not eat Jell-O with...