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...content with a bestseller career in the jukebox circuit, he has spread out into nightclubs, TV and movies. Last summer, landing on a Normandy Beach in a scene for 20th Century-Fox's The Longest Day (TIME, Sept. 8), he performed so valorously that General Dwight D. Zanuck has since expanded his role and called him back to Europe. Wherever he goes, in the U.S. or on song-promoting tours as far away as Japan, he is mobbed by teen-age nuts of all races. In Puerto Rico, when frenzied admirers besieged him in a department store, police popped...
...picture in which the central character is a truck, the story line is a dirt road, the scriptwriter (Irwin Shaw) runs out of gas, the actors (Stephen Boyd, Juliette Greco, David Wayne) have no spark, the director (Richard Fleisher) falls asleep at the wheel, and the producer (Darryl Zanuck) is going downhill. The spectator can hardly be blamed for speeding to the nearest exit...
...sterns than Fabian, Sands and Anka. Pentagon Peter Lawford will play a British commando leader,*Richard Todd a British major, and William Holden will be U.S. Lieut. Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort. Henry Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play a young Resistance heroine. She already has a proper military attitude...
Undaunted, Zanuck continues to press on with his stupefying re-creation of the most dramatic hours of the European war. Operating out of a blue-striped field headquarters tent, the Supremo has gone on the wagon for the duration, strictly limiting himself to an occasional bottle of beer, to set a solid example for his troupers. Cigar set grimly between his teeth, he takes to the air in a little French Alouette helicopter, zipping back and forth between production units, letting his men see their leader taking risks. He frankly admits that his "filmization" will often mow down the facts...
Surrounding himself with high, authentic brass, Zanuck cocks an Ikelike ear and listens to the advice of such aides as French General Pierre Koenig, German Admiral Friedrich Ruge (Rommel's sometime naval attache), and dozens of American officers. Drawing on his resources, Darryl Zanuck has also called in 22 ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the ist Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. 5°5th Infantry, and the ist Battle Group of the U.S. 6th Infantry (authorized by the Department of Defense). A direct telephone line to the Army groups' headquarters in Germany is kept open...