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Speaker 2 (12:56): Virginia eventually accepted that Daryl had women on the side and invited a few of his famous lovers and their husbands, believe it or not, for weekends at the Xanik's estate in Palm Springs.
May 25, 2024 · Zanuck's legacy as a studio mogul is, artistically, remarkable. But he was a terrible man who emboldened other terrible men to use their power to abuse women.
May 17, 2024 · According to a 2020 New York Times piece examining the culture of exploitation and abuse that paved the way for sexual predators like Weinstein, Zanuck "had a well-documented habit of flashing...
- Sandy Schaefer
Oct 16, 2017 · Confessions of an actress who's been groped, kissed and ditched by the men in charge. Filed under. Hollywood producer Darryl F. Zanuck was legendary in the industry — but not just for the...
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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.
- Tom Stempel
Oct 19, 2023 · Darryl F. Zanuck, Fox’s head honcho, renamed her Linda, finding the new moniker appropriate for what he felt were her vaguely Latina looks. (In reality, Darnell purportedly had some Cherokee ancestry through her mother, though Fox deleted mention of that from her studio biography.)
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Apr 16, 2024 · Darryl F. Zanuck (born September 5, 1902, Wahoo, Neb., U.S.—died December 22, 1979, Palm Springs, Calif.) was a Hollywood producer and movie executive for more than 40 years and an innovator of many trends in film. Abandoned by his parents at age 13, Zanuck joined the U.S. Army and fought in Belgium during World War I.