Word: zanucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pale blue eyes hovering over everything from finances to falsies, Darryl F. Zanuck was warming up to another 18-hour day as production boss of 20th Century-Fox and pacesetter for the U.S. cinema. No longer the wonder boy who at 25 ran the Warner lot, Zanuck at 47 is something no less phenomenal. In 142 Ibs. and a carefully measured 5 ft. 6¾ in., he embodies what may be nature's ultimate effort to equip the species for outstanding success in Hollywood. Producer Zanuck is richly endowed with tough-mindedness, talent, an outsized ego, and a glutton...
Since the war, Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox has consistently led the field in the quality of its films, by the verdict of both the box office and the critics. Last year the company's 24 pictures, costing a total of $43 million, pulled in a gross of $94 million-bigger, Fox executives claim, than that of any other major studio in proportion to the number and cost of movies made. This year the studio is spending $45 million on 30 movies. As in the past, each of them, from story conferences to cutting room, will be shaped...
...busily making westerns, Cinemactress Sally (Bad Girl) Eilers complained that everyone in Hollywood "has become society-conscious. That trend started when Elsa Maxwell came out here to give parties and when people like Darryl Zanuck and Jack Warner hobnobbed with international society on the Riviera...
Producer Nunnally Johnson (Three Came Home) was having a minor disagreement with his boss, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, who thinks that Johnson ought to go to Africa to shoot a picture about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Visiting Manhattan, Johnson suggested that the picture could be made just as well in the U.S. Said he: "Patronize your neighborhood deserts...
Darryl F. Zanuck's production films this study in the science of command very ably. The picture presents its flyers as normal human beings, afraid, yet not cowardly. They will risk their lives if they can find some purpose in the risk, yet they are reluctant and confused when their missions seem to be accomplishing nothing. Gregory Peck's job, as the new commander, is to give the group some purpose and hope of survival. the production is good because melodrama is kept out of the relationship between the men and their leader almost entirely...