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Darryl Francis Zanuck (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. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career was rivaled only by that of Adolph Zukor). He produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture during his tenure. Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Sarah Louise (née Torpin), who later married Charles Norton, and Frank Harvey Zanuck, who owned and operated a hotel in Wahoo. He had an older brother, Donald (1893–1903), who died in an accident when he was only 9 years old. Zanuck was of partial Swiss descent, and raised a Protestant. At age six, Zanuck and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where the better climate could improve her poor health. At age eight, he found his first movie job as an extra, but his disapproving father recalled him to Nebraska. In 1917, despite being 15, he deceived a recruiter, joined the United States Army, and served in France with the Nebraska National Guard during World War I. Upon returning to the US, he worked in many part-time jobs while seeking work as a writer. He found work producing movie plots, and sold his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving Thalberg. Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas, story editor at Universal Pictures' New York office, stated that one of the stories Zanuck sent out to movie studios around this time was completely plagiarized from another author's work. Zanuck then worked for Mack Sennett and FBO (where he wrote the serials The Telephone Girl and The Leather Pushers) and took that experience to Warner Bros., where he wrote stories for Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over 40 scripts from 1924 to 1929, including Red Hot Tires (1925) and Old San Francisco (1927). He moved into management in 1929, and became head of production in 1931. In 1933, Zanuck left Warner Bros. over a salary dispute with studio head Jack L. Warner. A few days later, he partnered with Joseph Schenck to form 20th Century Pictures, Inc. with financial help from Joseph's brother Nicholas Schenck and Louis B. Mayer, president and studio head of Loew's, Inc and its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, along with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith. 20th Century released its material through United Artists. During that short time (1933–1935), 20th Century became the most successful independent movie studio of its time, breaking box-office records with 18 of its 19 films, all profitable, including Clive of India, Les Miserables, and The House of Rothschild. After a dispute with United Artists over stock ownership, Schenck and Zanuck negotiated and used their studio to bring the bankrupt Fox studios in 1935 to create Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Zanuck was Vice President of Production of this new studio and took a hands-on approach, closely involving himself in scripts, film editing, and producing. ... Source: Article "Darryl F. Zanuck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1902-09-05
- event Death Date 1979-12-22
- school Known for: Production
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The CinemaScope Parade
1951-11-01
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1989-01-01
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Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995-09-03
7.2
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001-04-03
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Show-Business at War
1943-05-21
6
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006-03-21
9
The Casting Couch
1995-01-01
9
Rat Pack
2022-01-11
8
D-Day Revisited
1968-01-01
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The Screen Writer
1950-09-13
6.5
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31
6.2
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005-07-17
6.2
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997-01-01
7.5
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009-07-02
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Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000-10-14
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Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001-10-21
5.3
The 42nd Street Special
1933-02-20
6.6
What's My Line?
1950-02-02
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Cinépanorama
1956-02-04
6.6
The Dick Cavett Show
1968-06-06
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
6.6
All About Eve
1950-11-09
6.6
Viva Zapata!
1952-02-07
6.6
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952-10-08
6.6
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970-01-26
6.6
Doctor X
1932-08-03
6.6
People Will Talk
1951-08-29
6.6
The Longest Day
1962-09-25
6.6
The Sun Also Rises
1957-08-23
6.6
Baby Face
1933-07-13
6.6
The Black Diamond Express
1927-06-04
6.6
'G' Men
1935-05-04
6.6
Heidi
1937-10-15
6.6
The Purple Heart
1944-02-25
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The Purple Heart
1944-02-25
6.6
Just Around the Corner
1938-11-11
6.6
How Green Was My Valley
1941-10-28
6.6
The Snake Pit
1948-11-04
6.6
Pinky
1949-09-28
6.6
The Blue Bird
1940-01-15
6.6
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933-12-01
6.6
Lady Killer
1933-12-09
6.6
The Missing Link
1927-05-06
6.6
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938-03-18
6.6
The Public Enemy
1931-04-23
6.6
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939-06-09
6.6
Leave Her to Heaven
1945-12-25
6.6
Boomerang!
1947-02-28
6.6
Night and the City
1950-06-15
6.6
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939-11-10
6.6
China Girl
1942-12-09
6.6
Brigham Young
1940-09-27
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Clive of India
1935-01-25
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Thunder Birds
1942-10-28
6.6
Hudson's Bay
1941-01-03
6.6
Know For Sure
1941-01-01
6.6
The Chapman Report
1962-10-05
6.6
The Little Irish Girl
1926-03-06
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Show Them No Mercy!
1935-12-06
6.6
Irish Hearts
1927-05-21
6.6
The Life of the Party
1930-10-25
6.6
Blood Money
1933-11-17
6.6
International Settlement
1938-02-04
6.6
Little Old New York
1940-02-09
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Metropolitan
1935-10-17
6.6
Maryland
1940-07-19
6.6
Here I Am a Stranger
1939-09-29
6.6
Submarine Patrol
1938-11-25
6.6
Private Number
1936-06-05
6.6
The Bowery
1933-10-07
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The First Auto
1927-06-27
6.6
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
6.6
Show of Shows
1929-11-21
6.6
The Big Gamble
1961-07-25
6.6
The Walls of Jericho
1948-11-22
6.6
Always Goodbye
1938-06-24
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I'll Give a Million
1938-07-27
6.6
Everybody Does It
1949-10-24
6.6
The Lighthouse by the Sea
1924-12-01
6.6
Find Your Man
1924-09-01
6.6
Jaws of Steel
1927-09-10
6.6
Moulin Rouge
1934-01-10
6.6
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934-08-15
6.6
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925-12-26
6.6
The Desired Woman
1927-08-27
6.6
Cardinal Richelieu
1935-04-18
6.6
Old San Francisco
1927-09-04
6.6
Tenderloin
1928-03-14
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Noah's Ark
1928-11-01
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Tenderloin
1928-03-14
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Noah's Ark
1928-11-01
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Old San Francisco
1927-09-04
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The Desired Woman
1927-08-27
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So This Is Paris
1926-07-31
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The First Auto
1927-06-27
6.6
Life Begins
1932-09-10
6.6
Little Caesar
1931-01-25
6.6
Three on a Match
1932-10-29
6.6
The Affairs of Cellini
1934-08-24
6.6
The Man Who Played God
1932-02-09
6.6
Parachute Jumper
1933-01-28
6.6
Ex-Lady
1933-05-15
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The Doorway to Hell
1930-10-18
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Gallant Lady
1933-12-07
6.6
Three Faces East
1930-07-18
6.6
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932-12-24
6.6
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932-09-26
6.6
The Working Man
1933-04-20
6.6
Illicit
1931-02-14
6.6
The Rich Are Always with Us
1932-05-19
6.6
The Dark Horse
1932-06-16
6.6
The Dark Horse
1932-06-16
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On With the Show!
1929-07-13
6.6
Looking for Trouble
1934-03-28
6.6
The Last Gentleman
1934-04-27
6.6
Les Misérables
1935-04-20
6.6
Professional Soldier
1935-12-27
6.6
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935-11-14
6.6
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936-02-28
6.6
Thanks a Million
1935-11-13
6.6
It Had to Happen
1936-02-14
6.6
The Mighty Barnum
1934-12-23
6.6
Folies Bergère
1935-02-22
6.6
Call of the Wild
1935-08-09
6.6
The Country Beyond
1936-04-24
6.6
A Message to Garcia
1936-04-10
6.6
Under Two Flags
1936-04-30
6.6
Half Angel
1936-05-22
6.6
The Road to Glory
1936-09-04
6.6
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936-07-18
6.6
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936-08-21
6.6
To Mary - with Love
1936-08-01
6.6
White Fang
1936-07-17
6.6
Ramona
1936-09-25
6.6
Pigskin Parade
1936-10-23
6.6
Reunion
1936-11-20
6.6
Banjo on My Knee
1936-12-11
6.6
White Hunter
1936-11-25
6.6
Seventh Heaven
1937-03-25
6.6
Slave Ship
1937-06-16
6.6
On the Avenue
1937-02-12
6.6
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937-03-12
6.6
Angel's Holiday
1937-06-07
6.6
Wee Willie Winkie
1937-07-30
6.6
Thin Ice
1937-09-03
6.6
Lancer Spy
1937-10-08
6.6
Wake Up and Live
1937-08-23
6.6
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937-09-17
6.6
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950-05-19
6.6
David and Bathsheba
1951-08-10
6.6
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938-03-04
6.6
Happy Landing
1938-01-23
6.6
Maybe It's Love
1930-10-04
6.6
Three Blind Mice
1938-06-18
6.6
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953-12-02
6.6
Broken Lance
1954-09-25
6.6
With a Song in My Heart
1952-04-03
6.6
In Old Chicago
1938-04-15
6.6
Kentucky Moonshine
1938-05-20
6.6
Josette
1938-06-03
6.6
My Lucky Star
1938-09-09
6.6
The Egyptian
1954-08-25
6.6
Gateway
1938-08-05
6.6
Kentucky
1938-12-30
6.6
Little Miss Broadway
1938-07-29
6.6
Tail Spin
1939-02-19
6.6
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939-03-03
6.6
The View from Pompey's Head
1955-11-04
6.6
Jesse James
1939-01-14
6.6
Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955-11-23
6.6
Seven Cities of Gold
1955-10-07
6.6
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939-03-24
6.6
Second Fiddle
1939-06-30
6.6
Rose of Washington Square
1939-05-05
6.6
Sanctuary
1961-04-18
6.6
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939-04-04
6.6
Susannah of the Mounties
1939-06-13
6.6
The King and I
1956-06-29
6.6
On the Threshold of Space
1956-03-29
6.6
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956-04-12
6.6
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958-09-30
6.6
Crack in the Mirror
1960-05-19
6.6
Island in the Sun
1957-06-12
6.6
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939-09-01
6.6
The Roots of Heaven
1958-10-15
6.6
Stanley and Livingstone
1939-08-18
6.6
Hotel for Women
1939-08-03
6.6
Crack in the Mirror
1960-05-19
6.6
The Rains Came
1939-09-15
6.6
Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
6.6
Swanee River
1939-12-29
6.6
The Visit
1964-05-06
6.6
Star Dust
1940-04-06
6.6
Hung Up
1973-05-10
6.6
Lillian Russell
1940-05-24
6.6
Four Sons
1940-06-14
6.6
The Return of Frank James
1940-08-10
6.6
The Man I Married
1940-08-09
6.6
The Great Profile
1940-08-30
6.6
The Mark of Zorro
1940-11-08
6.6
Western Union
1941-02-21
6.6
Chad Hanna
1940-12-25
6.6
Public Deb No. 1
1940-09-13
6.6
Down Argentine Way
1940-10-11
6.6
Tobacco Road
1941-02-20
6.6
The Great American Broadcast
1941-05-09
6.6
That Night in Rio
1941-04-11
6.6
Man Hunt
1941-06-13
6.6
Moon Over Miami
1941-07-04
6.6
Wild Geese Calling
1941-08-15
6.6
Red Hot Tires
1925-10-31
6.6
The Limited Mail
1925-09-05
6.6
Blood and Sand
1941-05-30
6.6
Hogan's Alley
1925-12-12
6.6
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941-09-26
6.6
Week-End in Havana
1941-10-17
6.6
Sun Valley Serenade
1941-08-29
6.6
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941-09-26
6.6
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942-01-29
6.6
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942-11-09
6.6
Song of the Islands
1942-03-13
6.6
Sex Hygiene
1942-02-01
6.6
This Above All
1942-05-12
6.6
Thunder Birds
1942-10-28
6.6
China Girl
1942-12-09
6.6
The Black Swan
1942-12-04
6.6
Crash Dive
1943-04-22
6.6
Wintertime
1943-09-17
6.6
Buffalo Bill
1944-04-02
6.6
Winged Victory
1944-12-22
6.6
Claudia and David
1946-02-25
6.6
Wilson
1944-08-01
6.6
Dragonwyck
1946-04-19
6.6
Somewhere in the Night
1946-06-12
6.6
Strange Triangle
1946-05-17
6.6
The Razor's Edge
1946-11-19
6.6
Centennial Summer
1946-07-10
6.6
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947-01-04
6.6
The Foxes of Harrow
1947-09-24
6.6
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947-03-28
6.6
The Homestretch
1947-05-04
6.6
Moss Rose
1947-05-30
6.6
Captain from Castile
1947-12-25
6.6
Nightmare Alley
1947-10-09
6.6
Forever Amber
1947-10-10
6.6
Gentleman's Agreement
1947-11-11
6.6
Call Northside 777
1948-02-13
6.6
Fury at Furnace Creek
1948-04-30
6.6
Sitting Pretty
1948-03-10
6.6
Road House
1948-09-22
6.6
Cry of the City
1948-09-29
6.6
Give My Regards to Broadway
1948-06-08
6.6
That Wonderful Urge
1948-11-20
6.6
Apartment for Peggy
1948-09-30
6.6
The Forbidden Street
1949-03-31
6.6
The Fan
1949-04-01
6.6
It Happens Every Spring
1949-06-10
6.6
Sand
1949-08-03
6.6
Slattery's Hurricane
1949-08-11
6.6
Father Was a Fullback
1949-09-30
6.6
Under My Skin
1950-03-17
6.6
Twelve O'Clock High
1949-12-21
6.6
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941-01-24
6.6
Lights of New York
1928-07-18
6.6
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965-09-16
6.6
No Way Out
1950-08-16
6.6
Tracked by the Police
1927-05-07
6.6
The Pied Piper
1942-08-21
6.6
Blonde Crazy
1931-09-16
6.6
Born to Be Bad
1934-05-18
6.6
You're My Everything
1949-07-22
6.6
The Longest Day
1962-09-25
6.6
The Gunfighter
1950-06-23
6.6
The Singing Fool
1928-09-29
6.6
The Better 'Ole
1926-10-23
6.6
This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
6.6
The Littlest Rebel
1935-12-27
6.6
Footloose Widows
1926-06-19
6.6
Lifeboat
1944-01-28
6.6
My Man
1928-12-15
6.6
Ladies In Love
1936-10-09
6.6
Love Is News
1937-02-26
6.6
Seven Sinners
1925-11-07
6.6
The Terror
1928-09-06
6.6
State Street Sadie
1928-08-25
6.6
The Midnight Taxi
1928-09-01
6.6
Hardboiled Rose
1929-03-30
6.6
Madonna of Avenue A
1929-06-21
6.6
Friends
1953-11-27
6.6
Love and Hisses
1937-12-21
6.6
The House of Rothschild
1934-04-07
6.6
No Way Out
1950-08-16
6.6
Suez
1938-10-28
6.6
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947-07-31
6.6
The Gorilla
1939-05-26
6.6
Across the Pacific
1926-10-02
6.6
Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25
6.6
The Cave Man
1926-02-06
6.6
A Broadway Butterfly
1925-03-29
6.6
Ham and Eggs at the Front
1927-11-29
6.6
Simple Sis
1927-06-01
6.6
Pay as You Enter
1928-05-12
6.6
Money to Burns
1924-03-30
6.6
Fighting Blood
1923-03-18
6.6
Fighting Blood
1923-04-01
6.6
Fighting Blood
1923-12-23
6.6
Eve's Lover
1925-07-06
6.6
Eve's Lover
1925-07-06