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    Darryl Francis Zanuck (/ˈzænək/; September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories...
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    1933 by Joseph Schenck (the former president of United Artists) and Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. Pictures (and co-founded by William Goetz from Fox...
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    Richard Darryl Zanuck (/ˈzænək/; December 13, 1934 – July 13, 2012) was an American film producer. His 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy won the Academy Award...
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    Richard D. Zanuck (1934–2012), a film producer, and his mother, Linda Melson Harrison, an actress. His paternal grandfather was Darryl F. Zanuck, film producer...
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    Virginia Fox (redirect from Virginia Zanuck)
    she married film producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with whom she had three children, Darrylin, Susan Marie, and Richard Darryl. Fox retired from acting but...
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    against the estate of Darryl F. Zanuck, who she claimed was her constant companion from 1965 to 1973. She also claimed that Zanuck's son, Richard, influenced...
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    The Longest Day (film) (category Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck)
    D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox, and is directed by Ken Annakin (British and French...
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    thought already to belong to Don Ameche. Despite his own reservations, Darryl F. Zanuck decided to give Power the role, once King and Fox film editor Barbara...
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    was popular at the box office and established Crain as a film name. Darryl F. Zanuck, head of Fox, gave Crain top billing in In the Meantime, Darling (1944)...
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  • Century-Fox. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited), from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based...
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    continued to ascend, Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck expressed interest in broadening Grable's range as an actress. Zanuck tried, on multiple occasions, to...
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    Golden Globe Award Winner– Titanic – (1998) Producers Guild of America Darryl F Zanuck Theatrical Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award Winner – Titanic...
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    their initial releases. Twentieth Century Pictures' Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck left United Artists over a stock dispute, and began merger talks with...
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    femme fatale) (Walker). In May 1944, Twentieth Century Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck purchased the rights to Ben Ames Williams then-unpublished novel, Leave...
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    filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979), head of 20th Century Fox studios, father of Richard D. Zanuck Virginia Zanuck (1908–1982), actress, wife of Darryl F. Zanuck...
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    Joe Pasternak, David O. Selznick, Hunt Stromberg, Walter Wanger, Darryl F. Zanuck. "Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy receive an Honorary Award at...
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  • (Irving Thalberg, producer) Disraeli Warner Bros. (Jack L. Warner & Darryl F. Zanuck, producers) The Divorcee Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Robert Z. Leonard, producer)...
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  • included film clips that required explanation for the radio audience. Darryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century-Fox spent a fortune promoting Wilson out of determination...
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    The Grapes of Wrath (film) (category Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck)
    screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck. The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family of sharecroppers...
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  • Island in the Sun (film) (category Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck)
    Island in the Sun is a 1957 drama film produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by Robert Rossen. It features an ensemble cast including James Mason,...
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    the success of Warner Bros. studios and helped advance the career of Darryl F. Zanuck from screenwriter to producer and studio executive. After the dog's...
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  • Crack in the Mirror (category Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck)
    participants in two love triangles. The script was credited to by producer Darryl F. Zanuck (under his frequent pseudonym "Mark Canfield"), but in his 1993 autobiography...
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    Granger's next film, he was loaned out to 20th Century Fox, where Darryl F. Zanuck cast him in The Purple Heart (1944), in which he was directed by Milestone...
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    role, but she demanded a salary which the studio would not give her. Darryl F. Zanuck instead cast Darnell "because he felt that the name would advertise...
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  • He later became a personal secretary for Darryl F. Zanuck and Hal Wallis at Warner Bros. in 1931. After Zanuck resigned his position as Head of Production...
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  • The Sun Also Rises (1957 film) (category Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck)
    because of his other commitments to Fox, and Zanuck decided to produce the movie. Producer Darryl F. Zanuck spotted suit salesman Robert Evans at the El...
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    directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. Ford and producer Darryl F. Zanuck fought for control of the film, to the point where Ford destroyed unwanted...
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  • The Roots of Heaven (film) (category Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck)
    made for 20th Century Fox, directed by John Huston and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Romain Gary and Patrick Leigh Fermor is based on...
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    screen-test by Ben Lyon, a 20th Century-Fox executive. Head executive Darryl F. Zanuck was unenthusiastic about it, but he gave her a standard six-month contract...
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    Stanwyck as Lily Powers, and featuring George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), Baby Face portrays a young woman...
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