Word: zanucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darryl Zanuck told him. "The chips are down, there is no middle ground." "I was a nominee for an Academy Award." Kazan said, "and yet I knew that no studio in town would give...
...Hollywood group supporting Eisenhower announced that a poll of several hundred film stars, producers and other movie names showed a majority of 65% for Ike. Among his Hollywood supporters: Darryl Zanuck, Sam Goldwyn, Jack Warner, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe...
...essentially masculine features by portraying it through the eyes of Rachel, and stressing the sea of troubles they faced together as man & wife. The result is a hybrid with neither the grace of fiction nor the substance of biography, but it ought to make a ripsnorting movie. Darryl Zanuck, foresighted in such matters, has already bought the film rights and is thinking about Gregory Peck as Andrew Jackson, Olivia de Havilland as the President's little woman...
With People Will Talk, Producer Darryl Zanuck has broken a lot of Hollywood's old rules, and borrowed a few new ones from two of theater's greats. He tests Bernard Shaw's theory that audiences will listen to anything so long as it is amusingly said, and adapts from Chekhov the technique of having an actor, when necessary, move down to the footlights and explain to the audience what kind of man he is. One neat touch: the dedication "to that one who has inspired man's unending battle against Death, and without whom that...
...well as morally, that today not the star but the screenplay's the thing. But the majority of producers insist that what Hollywood needs is a return to the oldest lure of all. They are taking hasty steps to reglamorize their "properties." Typical recent case: Darryl F. Zanuck ordered Jeanne Grain out of her demure aprons and put her into bathing suits, which she fills more than adequately. And they are searching feverishly for the girl who can put glamor back in business...