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Dean Francis Zanuck (/ ˈ z æ n ə k /; born August 11, 1972) is an American production executive and film producer. Early life [ edit ] He was born on August 11, 1972, in Los Angeles.
Sep 23, 2014 · It was a picture that no Jew in Hollywood wanted made, but the stiff-willed and ideologue Zanuck, who was not Jewish, wanted to attack anti-Semitism and against all kinds of resistance he...
Zanuck decided to make a film version of Hobson's novel after being refused membership in the Los Angeles Country Club, because it was assumed (incorrectly) that he was Jewish. Before filming commenced, Samuel Goldwyn and other Jewish film executives approached Darryl Zanuck and asked him not to make the film, fearing it would "stir up trouble".
Relatives. Dean Zanuck (grandson) 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. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career ...
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. At 15, he joined the U.S. Army, and he fought in Belgium in World War I. Mustered out, he kept himself...
- September 5, 1902
- December 22, 1979
Sep 1, 2002 · Almost all those who created the American movie industry were Jewish, and many of them were immigrants, but Zanuck was a notable exception. A Protestant, he was born in Wahoo, Neb., a Westerner...
Dec 24, 1979 · During his heyday at 20th Century-Fox Mr. Zanuck was often presumed to be Jewish, although he and Walt Disney were the two WASP tycoons at the summit of the movie business.
