Word: darryl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be aware by this time, Darryl F. Zanuck and the rest of the 20th Century Fox bunch have sunk untold millions into the salaries, set, costumes, and the rest of the impedimenta involved in this latest production of theirs. To help secure such a huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort...
...belonged to no one man. Averell Harriman, as board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, had a hand in it. He persuaded his fellow directors that the U.P., hungry for prestige and passengers, should build a resort at Sun Valley. Hollywooders (including Norma Shearer, Claudette Colbert and Darryl F. Zanuck) made it fashionable. Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson hired Austria's famed skier, Hannes Schneider, and spent $1,000,000 to build his home town, North Conway, N. H., into one of the East's major ski resorts (TIME...
...operating expenses. Mary and Charlie therefore began taking in new partners. But something always went wrong. Usually, Mary and Charlie thought the newcomers tried to run things too much their own way. So the newcomers had to go. In rapid succession, such notables as Sam Goldwyn, Darryl Zanuck, Alexander Korda went through U.A.'s revolving door...
...Darryl Zanuck was in hospital overnight-hand injured by a flying polo ball. Tommy Manville asked the police of Westchester County, N.Y. to please find his eighth wife. He said she was last seen on the Boston Post Road with two suitcases...
Hollywood, which can explain everything, had an explanation for this, aside from the general prosperity. Twentieth Century-Fox's shrewd Darryl F. Zanuck credited 1) crowded living (from which movies provide temporary relief), 2) the newly educated audience of veterans (who got the movie habit overseas), 3) the reopening of foreign markets (which normally account for close to 35% of the industry's gross...