Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearing as 1944 political tempers grow warm, Wilson might be interpreted as straight Fourth Term propaganda. But as Producer Darryl Zanuck, a Republican, pointed out last December, it might just as easily have proved helpful to Wendell Willkie, board chairman of 20th Century-Fox, whose One World Zanuck will produce if Wilson clicks. And Wilson is so patently sincere that even its stoutest ideological opponents may well wish Darryl Zanuck luck when he grimly announces that if Wilson flops: "I'll never again make a picture without Betty Grable...
...Purple Heart (20th Century-Fox) was made behind locked doors, and in defiance of Washington officials who were soft-pedaling Jap atrocities. A few weeks ago, Washington changed its tune. Producer Darryl Zanuck* was urged to finish the film as soon as possible. Reason: it is a picture about Japanese atrocities, and Washington had decided to talk about the atrocities...
...Flashed Columnist Walter Winchell last fortnight of Author Melville Grossman: "That's the nom de typewriter of Producer Darryl Zanuck." It is one of three generated when Zanuck was with Warner Bros. The others: Mark Canfield, Gregory Rogers. Reason: exhibitors objected to plethora of films credited to Darryl Zanuck. (In one year he scripted 19 films...
...from Warners for her appearance in Hollywood Hotel. For getting stars to pose gratis for Woodbury's Soap testimonials (beginning in 1939) Louella gratefully admits to having received a "Christmas gift," promises to sue anyone who says she gets a salary. For the screen rights to her autobiography, Darryl Zanuck is paying Louella $75,000. (Cracked Hedda: "Darryl, I want $150,000 if I appear in it, and $75,000 if I stay...
...well-executed Commando raid. Only a few trusted "fifth columnists"-lawyers Mclntyre and David Faries, a brother team who had worked for his election in 1940, and several others-knew that his visit concerned anything more vital than studio business. He did go to the beach home of Darryl Zanuck, Fox production head, for five days of discussion devoted mainly to the script of One World. But Lem Jones, his political secretary, who had accompanied him across the country, took up a position some 15 miles east in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles...