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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.
4 days ago · As Scott Eyman observed in his book "20th Century Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio," Zanuck's major issue with the blacklist wasn't political, but rather one of ...
Sep 1, 2002 · As an omnipotent and amazingly prolific producer, he was responsible for a great diversity of films -- his career stretched from silent movies and ''42nd Street'' to ''The Longest...
Jul 11, 2010 · If Zanuck was so dismissive of history, why did he keep making historical films? As the head of the studio, he had to come up with twenty to thirty different A-pictures to release each year. He was constantly looking for story material.
- Tom Stempel
Jan 11, 1998 · Through Zanuck’s “absolute mastery” and “virtuosic manipulation” of the studio system, he fashioned Fox’s distinctive “house style,” and thus was “the major architect of the ...
May 18, 2018 · Darryl F. Zanuck ranks as one of the most famous, long-lived of Hollywood's movie moguls, earning the Thalberg Award a record three times. He is properly celebrated for helping revive and create Twentieth Century-Fox, and functioned as its chief of production from the mid-1930s until the mid-1950s, and then again, after a stint as an ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Darryl F. Zanuck 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.
