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...Wallis for production as well as exploitation decisions, put him in charge of First National when they bought that studio in 1928. Wallis made Dawn Patrol, Five Star Final, Little Caesar. In 1931 Warners brought their two plants together. Centre of production was the Burbank lot. Darryl Zanuck was put in charge. Wallis arrived one morning to find a workman taking his name off the door to replace it with that of Zanuck. Wallis sat on the stairs and laughed. What made it funny was that he had just finished a picture where a man came to his office...
Good moments: the Ritz Brothers (cast by Zanuck after a Sunday evening session in Hollywood's Trocadero) singing The Music Goes Round and Around; Tony
Girls' Dormitory (Twentieth Century-Fox). Although Herbert Marshall and Ruth Chatterton are billed above her, Simone Simon is the star of this picture. Producer Darryl Zanuck designed it expressly to provide a vehicle for her U. S. debut, and Screenwriter Gene Markey and Director Irving Cummings have intelligently fitted the material to her talents. As Marie Claudel, an undergraduate in a European seminary, she loves Stephen Dominik (Herbert Marshall), the head of the school. When a romantic, unsigned letter in her handwriting, addressed "My One and Only Love . . ." is fished out of a classroom wastebasket by an invidious...
...Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal appearance in Brussels, tested by Twentieth Century-Fox, signed by Zanuck. Smart, she learned English by reading fairy stories, listening to the radio, memorizing 25 words a day. Shy, she refuses to eat in the elaborate Cafe de Paris, official studio restaurant, dines in a counter lunch with the labor gangs. Says she: "I lived for years in Madagascar among temperamental...
Joseph Schenck's centre position on the divan was appropriate. When he took his Twentieth Century Pictures and his ace producer, Darryl Zanuck, to Fox Film last year, he found Fox in possession of 49% voting interest in a holding company which controlled Gaumont-British. With 450 theatres and the best production in the Empire, Gaumont is the biggest factor in British cinema. The Fox interest in Gaumont-British was picked up by William Fox in 1929 for about $20,000,000, a purchase which later played a large part in toppling the silvery Fox pyramid about Founder...