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Zanuck, Darryl F. (Francis) (1902–79) film executive, producer, screenwriter; born in Wahoo, Nebr. He played a little Indian in a Western film at age eight, and in 1923 he joined Warners as a screenwriter. In 1933 he founded Twentieth Century, which merged with Fox in 1934. He became an independent producer in 1956. Among his films were Little Caesar (1930), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Sound of Music (1965); he won the Thalberg Award three times (1937, 1944, 1950). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Zanuck Producer of the Year Award - an accurate indicator of the best picture Oscar in 11 of the past 16 years. His friends Dick and Lili Zanuck had taken on the widely coveted but strangely hard to fill job of producing the Oscars show, and I was the head writer. DARRYL Zanuck took over struggling Fox Studio Corp. |
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