Darryl Zanuck
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posted by Joseph Levy
What about Genevieve Gilles? They had a torrid love affair for several years.
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Since when did he have a relationship with Monroe? He hated her with a passion!
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    Name Darryl Zanuck
    (Darryl Francis Zanuck)
    Height 5' 6"  (168 cm)
    Date of Birth September 5, 1902
    Birthplace Wahoo, Nebraska
    Star Sign Virgo
    Died December 22, 1979 (Aged 77)
    Location of Death Palm Springs, California
    Cause of Death jaw cancer
    Occupation Film/TV Producer
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  • Video won`t be able to hold any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
  • [on Jean Renoir] Renoir has a lot of talent, but he isn`t one of us.
  • No one can possibly write the history of motion pictures without devoting the largest individual share of it to Irving G. Thalberg, who incidentally was my intimate friend until the day he died. In my opinion, he was the most creative producer in the history of films during the period when he was Production Head of MGM, and the guiding light of that operation.
  • An executive cannot expect love - ever!
  • We are in this business primarily to provide entertainment, but in doing so we do not dodge the issue if we can also provide enlightenment.
  • I know audiences feed on crap, but I can`t believe we are so lacking that we cannot dish it up to them with some trace of originality.
  • There is nothing duller on the screen than being accurate but not dramatic.
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  • Later regretted his involvement in the pre-Civil Rights-era movie Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927) and considered movies he made as head of 20th Century-Fox like Pinky (1949) and Gentleman`s Agreement (1947) as atonement.
  • It was an unwritten rule on the 20th Century Fox lot that Zanuck was "in conference" between 4:00 and 4:30 pm daily, "interviewing" one of his starlets or chorus girls.
  • Like Charles Chaplin, he kept a dictionary in his office bathroom. Zanuck would escape to the bathroom to look up words his underlings would use that he didn`t understand.
  • Is the only person who received three AMPAS Irving Thalberg Memorial Awards; the Academy no longer gives more then one Memorial Award to one person. The other person who received more than one was Hal B. Wallis.
  • Reportedly had a fondness for Scrabble.
  • Is portrayed by Peter Maloney in This Year`s Blonde (1980) (TV), by Sandy McPeak in Marilyn and Me (1991) (TV) and by William Atherton in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) (TV)
  • He was hired by Warner Bros. in 1924 as a writer on Rin Tin Tin pictures at a little less than $500 per week. By the end of 1925 he had been promoted to executive in charge of production at a salary of $5000 per week.
  • He was the prime promoter of the CinemaScope anamorphic widescreen system. Many exhibitors were afraid to make the significant investment required to install CinemaScope equipment in case it was only a short-lived fad, like 3-D. He pledged that all future 20th Century-Fox releases would be in CinemaScope (or an other compatible process).
  • Produced Gentleman`s Agreement (1947), one of the first films about anti- Semitism, even though Zanuck himself was not Jewish.
  • During World War II he served as supervisor for Signal Corps training films and the photographic record of the North Africa invasion, and was awarded the Legion of Merit. After cremation, his ashes were scattered on the Pacific Ocean.
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