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Zanuck was an early advocate of widescreen projection. One of the first things Zanuck did when he returned to Fox in 1944 was to restart the research on a 50 mm film, shelved in the early 1930s as a cost-cutting measure (a larger-sized film print in the projector meant higher resolution).
Jul 11, 2010 · Issue 55. As a filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck was more a storyteller than an historian. When he was the dominant creative force at 20 th Century-Fox as its vice-president of production in the thirties and forties, Zanuck’s interest in history was in the stories it provided him and his collaborators (screenwriters, directors, technicians, et al.).
- Tom Stempel
Mar 28, 2017 · One hastily convened meeting later and Darryl Zanuck’s time as studio boss at 20 th Century Fox came to an end. He was the last Hollywood tycoon to fall. In 1979, having made his peace with both Richard and Virginia, he died from cancer of the jaw at the age of 77. A lifetime of smoking enormous cigars had caught up with him.
Aug 16, 2018 · He soon found work as a film extra, but his on-camera dreams came to a quick end when his alcoholic father called him home. Like Walt Disney, Darryl Zanuck found himself in France in 1918 during ...
Jan 11, 1998 · With George F. Custen’s “Twentieth Century’s Fox,” Zanuck’s rehabilitation reaches a crescendo of sorts: the producer biography (or “mogul book,” as Custen calls it) as hagiography.
Darryl F. Zanuck was born September 5, 1902, in Wahoo, Nebraska, a small town of 2,000, west of Omaha. His mother, Louise, was the daughter of Henry Torpin, the owner of Wahoo's only hotel. His father, Frank, of Swiss descent, was a former Iowa farm boy who worked as a night clerk in the Wahoo hotel. Alcohol and gambling drove Zanuck's mother ...
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Sep 1, 2002 · Today, studio heads and producers are far more subject to the will (and the whim) of stars, agents, investors and C.E.O.'s, and to the attention span of the public at large. Richard D. Zanuck ...
