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Jan 11, 1998 · Zanuck’s biographers have been among the worst offenders, and “Twentieth Century’s Fox” provides a lively, convincing corrective.
Darryl Francis Zanuck (/ ˈzænək /; September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.
May 21, 2006 · Zanuck has come a long way from the tightly wrapped young prince who crashed his first car at 16, had two early bad marriages and got into frequent barroom brawls.
Jul 13, 2005 · Zanuck Sr. was working at 20th Century Films at the time of Richard’s birth; the company would merge a year later with William Fox’s Fox Film Corp., where Zanuck is named chief of production....
Jul 11, 2010 · When Zanuck was starting up 20 th Century Pictures he used the biographical films to establish the new company as a class operation, as opposed to several fly-by-night smaller studios. In 1934, he gave an interview in which he talked about his goals for his films: “It’s the theme that counts.
- Tom Stempel
Aug 16, 2018 · Darryl Simon Michael Barnes was the son of hotel owners in Wahoo, Nebraska in 1902, Zanuck got his first taste of Hollywood when he was eight years old. Facing declining health, he and his mother...
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Jul 13, 2012 · Zanuck died Friday morning at 77, suddenly, of a heart attack. He was in the middle of producing a movie, a thriller called “Hidden,” this time with a new generation of talent that included...
