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...picture must gross 2½ times its cost to break even. As Warner's President Ted Ashley puts it, "If you get hurt with the $15 million films, you get de-balled." Though his $20 million Hello, Dolly! may nose into the black eventually. Fox Board Chairman Darryl F. Zanuck confesses that he would be some kind of nut to launch such an extravagant film today. "Once you're over the $4,000,000 category," he figures, "you're sticking out your chin." Paramount and MGM are, with few exceptions, enforcing a $2,000,000 limit...
...PLACE FOR POLLY, a new production of Lonnie Coleman's comedy formerly known as She Didn't Say Yes, concerns a girl who has to compete with her older sister for everything-even her own publisher husband. Starring Joan Hackett, Darryl Hickman and Betsy von Furstenberg, the play will open in New Fairfield, Conn., on Aug. 11; in Westport, Conn., Aug. 18; in Ivoryton, Conn...
...piece set of calf luggage? Those who would-and do-constitute the glittering clientele of Gucci, the Florentine leather company that offers fancy quality at fancy prices. Before flying off to wed Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy stopped at Gucci's Manhattan shop to select a brown crocodile handbag. Darryl Zanuck had Gucci copy his favorite 30-year-old valise, and Capucine bought a leather dog carrier. Frank Sinatra recently sent his secretary to pick up a pair of moccasins. Other regular patrons include Rothschilds and Rockefellers, movie stars and magnates from several continents...
...Darryl F. Zanuck seized control of 20th Century-Fox in 1962 after a lot of nasty infighting; in five years he and his son Richard turned a single-year loss of $39.8 million into a single-year profit of $12.5 million. Success, naturally, bred envy. And envy gave rise to tales of dirty dealing, venality and grossness. Two years ago, the company gave the run of the lot to a freelance writer, John Gregory Dunne. Dunne could attend any meeting, drop in on any set. He would learn the truth, and the truth somehow would set 20th Century-Fox free...
Observing the 25th anniversary of the be ginning of the end of World War II in Europe, Narrator Darryl F. Zanuck shows footage from his 1962 film The Longest...