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Twentieth Century's Fox Hardcover - 1997

by George F. Custen


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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 Zanuck's 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 films--including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, The Grapes of Wrath, Gentleman's 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, Zanuck's films and Zanuck himself have become legends of the cinema. But what exactly was this producer's 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 Century's Fox tells the whole story--from Zanuck's 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 how--more than any producer before or since--this diminutive, enigmatic fellow from Wahoo, Nebraska, changed the way we look at film.Custen highlights the studio as the context of production. Zanuck's ability to shape the producer's role and the organizational style during the golden years of the studio system--with its own peculiar methods, clearly delineated rules, and pecking order--was the crucible out of which he forged a unique vision of American film and American culture.

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  • Title Twentieth Century's Fox
  • Author George F. Custen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465076192 / 046507619X
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.44 x 9.57 x 1.41 in (16.36 x 24.31 x 3.58 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture producers and directors -, Zanuck, Darryl Francis
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97023961
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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