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...somber mood extended last week all the way to Cannes, where key industry figures from around the world gathered for the annual wheeling and movie dealing at the industry's premier film festival. High-rolling producers like Richard Zanuck still vied for choice tables at sidewalk cafés along the Boulevard de la Croisette, while aspiring starlets jousted for the attention of the camera-toting paparazzi. But Variety summed up the atmosphere in the headline: LACK OF ZEST AT CANNES FILM FEST...
DIED. Darryl Zanuck, 77, imperious production chief at 20th Century-Fox for 35 years and a thousand films; of pneumonia; in Palm Springs, Calif. The cigar-chomping, polo-playing mogul got his Hollywood break when Warner Bros, hired him as a $250-a-week scenarist for Rin Tin Tin. In four years he was head of production at 20 times that salary. Warner's Wunderkind brought dialogue to feature films (The Jazz Singer, 1927) and pioneered such realistic genres as the gangster and "working gal" films. In 1933 Zanuck and United Artists Head Joseph M. Schenck formed 20th Century...
...many hassles these days. They are talking Redford, Fonda, Coppola and $150,000 with a very nice percentage for my next script. Everyone is thinking Woman this year and I am The Woman to write it. I looked thin and not a day over thirty-two at the Zanuck-Brown party in Women's Wear two weeks...
...late." Getting them together again, he felt, would destroy a great plot-as well as undermine a sound moral. Now, at 80, Atlanta Attorney Mitchell, a father of two sons, has had a change of heart. Probably impressed by the phenomenal success of Jaws, he approached its co-producers, Zanuck and Brown, who promptly snapped up his offer. "I figured I might as well let them have a go at it," says Mitchell. "Nobody can write like Margaret could anyway...
Survival Books. Zanuck and Brown have an author who is willing to try. They have hired Anne Edwards, 49, to write "a deep, rich and complex novel" from which the screenplay will be adapted (the novel will be published in paperback at the same time the movie comes out). Says Brown: "Bear in mind that this is not the kind of project where a screenwriter can just sit down and write 'fade in.' " Even so, the producers want an outline this fall and the finished novel within a year...