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...others: International Business Machines' Thomas Watson: $453,440. Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace: $378,698. American Tobacco's George Hill: $331,348. General Motors' William Knudsen: $303,400. Cinemactress Claudette Colbert: $301,944. Cinemactor Warner Baxter: $279,807. Producer Darryl Zanuck: $265,000. Radio's Bing Crosby: $260,000. Theatre Operator Spyros P. Skouras...
Busy Producer Darryl F. Zanuck takes time out from the drum-thumping phases of U. S. history (as seen and heard in Drums Along the Mohawk) to do a long, lavish, Technicolored, cinema biography of U. S. Composer Stephen Foster. Foster, while drinking himself to death, turned out most of the best U. S. folk songs. In pictures about composers a vacant look, head noddings and rhythmic hand flourishes denote musical inspiration. With these appropriate symptoms Don Ameche, as Stephen Foster, is shown conceiving his songs. Al Jolson (Christy the minstrel man) sings them, manages to mar their simplicity with...
...this, for Arrowhead is financed largely with cinema money. Chief Stockholders Schenck and Paley sold $1,000,000 of the corporation debentures, the 10,000 shares of common stock to Hollywoodians. Among the stockholders are Constance Bennett (one of the smartest of cinema's businesswomen), Claudette Colbert, Darryl Zanuck, Al Jolson, Paley & friends are planning to sell $500,000 more of common stock issue to finish the job of making Arrowhead a glittering combination of Carlsbad and Sun Valley...
Drums Along the Mohawk (20th Century-Fox) continues Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck's probings into the rise of U. S. civilization as exemplified by In Old Chicago, Young Mr. Lincoln. The current example is notable chiefly for its running time (one hour and 43 minutes), a non-stop foot race between Henry Fonda and three pursuing Indians apparently down the entire length of Mohawk Valley, and the dogged persistence with which early American settlers plant wheat every spring for the Indians to burn every autumn. Since one burning wheat field looks much like another burning wheat field, this seasonal...
Unwilling to miss a trick, Cinemakers Darryl F. Zanuck, Walter Wanger and Sam Briskin hired the United Press "executive leased wire service" for war coverage-about 10,000 words daily on new streamlined, silent teletype machines. Cost per month...