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Darryl F. Zanuck was the epitome of a self-made man. He was not an educated man in the classical sense, was not an actor or director, but nevertheless he left an indelible mark on the history of the American movie industry. He was the producer of about 200 films during a 25 year period from 1925 to 1970. He is also the co-founder of one of the ...
Zanuck, Darryl F. (1902-1979)Darryl F. Zanuck ranks as one of the most famous, long-lived of Hollywood's movie moguls. He oversaw scores of films and created many film stars. Many of these films and their stars were tremendously popular at the time and remain so today. He revived and created Twentieth Century-Fox, functioning as its chief of ...
Nov 28, 1997 · Unfairly remembered as a vulgar, cigar-chomping mogul, producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-79) gets his due in this perceptive biography. Film historian George F. Custen analyzes Zanuck's role in shaping gritty, urban-oriented movies such as The Public Enemy that made Warner Brothers' reputation in the 1920s and '30s.
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- George F. Custen
Sep 28, 2022 · The character is anonymous, but it is assumed that Mr Z is based on Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the most influential producers of the 20th century – and, not coincidentally, the man who began ...
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 ĉe la celebro de disdonado de Oskar-premioj. Darryl Francis ZANUCK (5a de Septembro, 1902 - 22a de Decembro, 1979) estis usona kina produktoro kaj studiestro; li dekomence kontribuis al historioj por filmoj eke en la mutkina epoko. Li ludis gravan rolon en la sistemo de studioj de Holivudo kiel unu el ties plej longdaŭraj ...
One of the most prolific and accomplished moguls of Hollywood's Golden Age, Darryl F. Zanuck was the co-founder and primary force behind 20th Century Fox, and helped to shepherd the company from a start-up in the late 1920s to one of the greatest movie studios in film history.
