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Tackles & Buttons. As the movies flourished, so did the hotel. Its patrons built their homes around it: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford set their Pickfair high in the hills above it, so did Barrymore, Harold Lloyd and Tom Mix. Will Rogers and Darryl Zanuck played polo nearby, stopped so often at the hotel bar that it was and is still called the Polo Lounge. There were off-screen sporting events: Tom Mix once was sent to the carpet in a flying tackle by an autograph hound; Cartoonist George McManus unscrewed a button marked "Press" from a men's room...
Ever since capturing 20th Century-Fox from the cold grip of Wall Street last summer, President Darryl F. Zanuck had been holed up in his Manhattan bunker, coldly sniping at Cleopatra. Then, armed with the excellent argument that any unfinished movie that has cost its studio $35 million must be a scandal, Zanuck moved into Paris for close combat with Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz. Last week the generalissimo took careful aim, picked Mankiewicz off, and flew home with Cleopatra under his arm. Having made a career of making others dance to his martial music, he was scarcely prepared...
Such an epic must some day find its Homer. At the moment, it has Darryl Zanuck. At 60, Producer Zanuck is known as an organizational genius who for 20 years was chief of production at 20th Century-Fox and is currently president of the company-long an ailing entity that now, after two years of playing Antony to Cleopatra, seems dangerously close to collapse (TIME...
...French for 2,000 regulars-at the height of the crisis in Algeria. When Zanuck needed a train to blow up, he got one. To transport his troops he assembled a large fleet of Jeeps, tanks and halftracks, plus an impressive personal navy of assorted landing craft. Suddenly Darryl the Great, as his minions know him, was the ninth strongest military power in the world. Zanuck himself modestly admits: "My job was even tougher than Ike's. He had the men and he had the equipment. I had to find both...
Ever since he took over 20th Century-Fox a month ago and became Hollywood's newest general, Darryl Zanuck has been playing martial airs to urge his studio into combat. Last week the music stopped and the casualty lists appeared: > Fired were four topFox executives whose brains have been costing the company at least half a million a year...