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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.
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.
Aug 7, 2001 · Zanuck, a stickler for accuracy, cast actors who had served in the conflict, including Britain’s Richard Todd. Yet he often faced the dilemma of balancing the battle’s historical truth with ...
Aug 16, 2018 · Of the three founders of what would become Twentieth Century Fox, Zanuck was the only one born in America, although he wasn’t born under the name Zanuck. Darryl Simon Michael Barnes was the son ...
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Jul 27, 2020 · Zanuck had also enlisted and served as a Lieutenant Colonel leaving the studio in the capable but (from his point of view unwelcome) hands of William Goetz, his Twentieth Century Pictures nemesis. Unhappy with his war experiences, he returned to the studio in l944 to rescue an early version of Song of Bernadette , which ended up winning our first Golden Globe as Best Picture.
