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Married. Nightclub Singer Susan Marie Zanuck, 20, daughter of 20th Century-Fox Production Boss Darryl F. Zanuck; and Egyptian-born Fox Producer Andre (Powder River, O. Henry's Full House} Hakim, 34; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...content with the dual job, making a variety of well-turned pictures in a variety of styles (The Grapes of Wrath, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, How to Marry a Millionaire). Then, says Johnson, 56, "I got the impulse to direct. I said to [20th Century-Fox Boss Darryl] Zanuck: 'What about directing Night Peopled Zanuck said, 'What will Peck say?' " Johnson checked with Actor Peck. "He looked kind of startled and said, 'Why not?' So I became a director...
...sharp-eyed and lively as a sandpiper, flits in and out of restaurants and nightclubs picking up tidbits on kings, stars, villains and dog-biters. His office files bulge with more than 20,000 of their names from A (Fred Allen, Konrad Adenauer, Dean Achesoh) to Z (Darryl Zanuck, Vera Zorina. Babe Didrikson Zaharias). The names are his cast of characters in anecdotes which are interrupted only by items of news and occasionally "the kind of gossip that doesn't hurt anyone." A typical Lyons anecdote: "I owed the Trumans a dinner, for they had been our hosts...
...every day of the week. And, impressive as is the wide CinemaScope screen, it is also curiously oppressive for eyes trained to the simpler demands of "flat," ordinary films. Can CinemaScope be used for anything except ponderous spectacles and chorus lines? Twentieth Century-Fox's Production Chief Darryl Zanuck thinks it can, and will attempt to prove his point with the soon to be released How to Marry a Millionaire, a lightweight comedy starring Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Zanuck has placed $35 million worth of eggs in his CinemaScope basket by scheduling a total of 14 pictures for wide...
...Cinemogul Darryl Zanuck signed an affidavit solemnly affirming that the voice on the sound track was really Marilyn...