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...About Eve first, singled out Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz as best director and Star Bette Davis as best actress. By citing Gregory Peck as best actor (for his playing in Twelve O'Clock High), they gave an unprecedented clean sweep to one studio: Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century...
...years since his friends John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Darryl Zanuck, the late Robert Benchley and others lent him $7,500 to go into business, Romanoff's restaurant has become much more than just a place to eat good food. There, Hollywood has clinched its big deals, dreamed its Technicolored dreams, made and broken careers. With its "dress circle" of favored dining booths, Romanoff's is a precise measuring stick of whether a star is rising or falling. Waiting for a table at Romanoff's is a good indication that a star has faded...
...About Eve (20th Century-Fox), a needle-sharp study of bitchery in the Broadway theater, is Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's major bid for 1950 Oscars. Zanuck, usually a ruthless cutter, thinks well enough of the picture to let it run 2 hours and 18 minutes. His company echoes his high opinion by releasing the movie on unprecedented terms: no latecomers are to be admitted to its scheduled (but continuous) performances...
With a sharp eye for a competitor's product, Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, back from getting a new movie rolling in Germany, had a prediction: "I would say if the political and military situation remain the same, some of our strongest competition two years from now will come from the German film market...
There was really not much more that any Hollywood producer could ask for. Crowed the fast-talking Jerry Wald: "We'll have even more autonomy than Zanuck...