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When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
Show Them No Mercy. When Zanuck started the gangster cycle five years ago, censors had not yet ruled that picture makers must not show the manner in which a crime is committed. This story obeys the new rule by beginning at the end of a "perfect" kidnapping, picking up the kidnappers at the point where, receiving the ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around...
Thanks a Million. To get Dick Powell for the lead in this topical, pell-mell musical cinema. Producer Zanuck traded Fredric March to Warner Bros, for Anthony Adverse. A troupe of entertainers, stuck in a small town on a rainy night, strangle into a political rally to get dry and become part of the election machinery when Troupe Manager Fred Allen sells the candidate for Governor the idea of spicing up his speeches with songs by the Yacht Club Boys, Rubinoffs fiddling. Before long Dick Powell wins the party nomination, campaigns successfully with speeches guaranteed not to last more than...
Lichtman. The ups-and-downs of United Artists this year started in June when Darryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures left the lot to merge with Fox, taking United Artists' President Joe Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures...
...because some years ago they bought Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the services of Louis Mayer, Irving Thalberg and J. R. Rubin. Without those three men I wouldn't give for the stock. . . . We pay stars $8,000 or $9,000 weekly and make money out of them. Zanuck, who directs these stars and creates stars, is worth $5,000 a week. ... It may be more money than bank presidents are paid, but bank presidents can't make moving pictures...