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Darryl Francis Zanuck (/ ˈ z æ n ə k /; 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.
Darryl F. Zanuck. Producer: The Longest Day. One of the kingpins of Hollywood's studio system, Zanuck was the offspring of the ill-fated marriage of the alcoholic night clerk in Wahoo, Nebraska's only hotel and the hotel owner's daughter. Both parents had abandoned him by the time he was 13.
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- Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
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- Palm Springs, California, USA
The Darryl F. Zanuck papers contain scripts, production files, correspondence, personal memorabilia, scrapbooks, photographs, and posters. Biography. Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) was born in Wahoo, Nebraska. He joined Warner Bros. in 1923 as a screenwriter and worked his way up in the studio hierarchy, becoming studio manager in 1928 and head ...
Darryl F. Zanuck. Producer: The Longest Day. One of the kingpins of Hollywood's studio system, Zanuck was the offspring of the ill-fated marriage of the alcoholic night clerk in Wahoo, Nebraska's only hotel and the hotel owner's daughter.
- September 5, 1902
- December 22, 1979
Aug 11, 2023 · 20th Century Pictures Inc Logo 1933 A. by. Darryl F. Zanuck; Joseph Schenck. Publication date. 1933/10/07. Topics. 20thCenturyPictures, 20thCenturyFOX. Item Size. 1608847.
Jul 11, 2010 · One of his most successful films, Old San Francisco (1927), a white-slavery-in-Chinatown melodrama, was set in 1906 not to provide an historical view, but to use the earthquake as the climax. Another Zanuck attempt at an historical film was the 1929 epic Noah’s Ark. It was not a success.
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As the controlling executive of Twentieth Century Fox, Zanuck produced such memorable films as The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), Winged Victory (1944), The Razor’s Edge (1946), Gentlemen’s Agreement (1947), and Viva Zapata!
