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Hollywood producer Darryl F. Zanuck was a man of enormous energy and eccentricity. Commanding Twentieth Century-Fox with a sawed-off polo mallet, Zanuck produced dozens of memorable films, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , The Grapes of Wrath , Gentlemans Agreement , All About Eve , and The Day the Earth Stood Still . In this major new biography, George F. Custen illuminates Zanucks evolution into one of the most influential producers in American film. With The Jazz Singer Zanuck supervised the innovation of film sound. With The Public Enemy and Little Caesar he reinvented the gangster film. With 42nd Street he reinvigorated the musical. He set the standard for film biography with pictures such as Young Mr. Lincoln and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell . He innovated CinemaScope. And he molded the star images of James Cagney, Betty Grable, Tyrone Power, and Shirley Temple.Hard-boiled or nostalgic, historical or pure Hollywood, Zanucks films and Zanuck himself have become legends of the cinema. In never-before-published story conference anecdotes, Custen reveals how more than any producer before or sincethis diminutive, enigmatic fellow changed the way we look at film. He explains what set him apart from rivals Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick, how he developed the gritty realism that came to redefine motion pictures, and how he brilliantly predicted and capitalized on changing public tastes.Covering Zanucks life from his boyhood in Wahoo, Nebraska, to the tumultuous years with the feuding Warner Brothers, from his battles with the censors to inside stories about actors such as Edward G. Robinson, Gregory Peck, and Marilyn Monroe, Custens Twentieth Centurys Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood tells how Zanuck redefined the role of the producer in American cinema. }Spanning four decades and more than a thousand films, the creative output of Darryl D. Zanuck was astonishing and unparalleled. With The Jazz Singer he supervised the innovation of film sound. With The Public Enemy and Little Caesar he reinvented the gangster film. With 42nd Street he reinvigorated the musical. He set the standard for film biography with pictures such as Young Mr. Lincoln and The Story of Alexander Graham Bell . He innovated CinemaScope. And he molded the star images of James Cagney, Shirley Temple, Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Rin Tin Tin.In this major new biography, George F. Custen illuminates Zanucks evolution into one of the most influential producers in American film. He explains what set him apart from rivals Irving Thalberg and David O. Selznick, how he developed the gritty realism that came to redefine motion pictures, and how he brilliantly predicted and capitalized on changing public tastes.Zanuck was a man of enormous energy and eccentricity, commanding his studio with a sawed-off polo mallet. Dozens of his memorable filmsincluding I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang , The Grapes of Wrath, Gentlemans Agreement, All About Eve, The Day the Earth Stood Still , and The Robe have come to represent the era in which they were made. Hard-boiled or nostalgic, historical or pure Hollywood, Zanucks films and Zanuck himself have become legends of the cinema. But what exactly was this producers contribution to the films he made? How did he rise from being a writer of silent serials to become head of production at Warner Brothers by his mid-twenties, and then to form his own studio, Twentieth Century-Fox at age thirty-three?Twentieth Centurys Fox tells the whole storyfrom Zanucks boyhood to his tumultuous years with the feuding Warners, his battles with the censors and with his own actors, and the legendary acting-out of scenes during story conferences in his famous green office. Along the way, Custen treats us to inside stories about actors such as Edward G. Robinson, Gregory Peck, and Marilyn Monroe. In never-before-published story conference notes, telegrams, and surprisingly candid anecdotes, he reveals howmore than any producer before or sincethis diminutive, enigmatic fellow from Wahoo, Nebraska, changed the way we look at film.Custen highlights the studio as the context of production. Zanucks ability to shape the producers role and the organizational style during the golden years of the studio systemwith its own peculiar methods, clearly delineated rules, and pecking orderwas the crucible out of which he forged a unique vision of American film and American culture. }
Contents
Introduction: The Mark of Zanuck; Part I: Foundations; Excavating Zanuck; Zanuck the Writer; The Hardest-working Little Guy: Zanuck at Warner Brothers; The Talking Thing: The Safe Entertainment of The Jazz Singer; Part II: Innovations; Dreaming of the Actual World: Transforming Warner Brothers Style; A Criminal Talent; 1933: Struggles, Artistic and Fiscal; Twentieth Century and After; Part III: The Age Of Zanuck; The Smiling Face of a Baby: Shirley Temple, Movies, and Memory; The Only Way I Know How to Produce; The Glittering Robes of Entertainment; Seeing Red and Getting Religion in CinemaScope; Epilogue.
