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4 days ago · 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 for Best Picture.
2 days ago · Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming.
4 days ago · In 1933, he partnered with Darryl F. Zanuck to form Twentieth Century Pictures to produce motion pictures for United Artists, until 20th Century merged with Fox Film in 1935. As chairman of the new 20th Century Fox, he was one of the most powerful and influential people in the film business.
1 day ago · But people who go to pictures for the sake of seeing pictures will see a great one. For The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book. It is certainly the best picture Darryl F. Zanuck has produced or Nunnally Johnson scripted. It would be the best John Ford had directed if he had not already made The Informer.
9 hours ago · Slatzer asserted that due to concerns over how the marriage might affect Monroe’s burgeoning career, Darryl F. Zanuck, then-head of Twentieth Century Fox, intervened. Supposedly, under Zanuck’s orders, the marriage was annulled, and Slatzer and Monroe returned to Mexico to destroy their marriage certificate.
4 days ago · Former 20th Century Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck saw this film as a way to revitalize his career and planned to produce it independently. The goal of the film was realism, and his crew searched the globe for uniforms and military equipment to recreate the invasion.
4 days ago · The story was by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film starred Dolores Costello and George O'Brien. Released by Warner Bros. studio, the film was representative of the transition from silent movies to "talkies", although it was essentially a kind of film known as a part-talkie, utilizing new Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology.
