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...lady with a rolled-up copy of Variety could have done it alone. This particular D-day occurred scarcely a week ago, and the three U.S. soldiers were nothing more than those duck-tailed microphones, Singers Paul Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near...
...Mediterranean isn't the English Channel and Corsica isn't Normandy, but Darryl Zanuck has been making sequences for The Longest Day, his re-creation of Dday, near a beige and white Corsican fishing village. Zanuck needed the U.S. Navy, and the only fleet the Pentagon had available for him was the Sixth. which is supposed to stay in the Mediterranean. Undaunted, Zanuck's special-effects technicians smoked out the high Corsican hills, beclouded the cobalt air, and hosed down the white beaches so the sand would look dark and Norman. A sign went up warning local...
...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...