Zanuck eventually agreed, giving him A-list production values for what normally would be a B film.

By 1970, with the parent 20th Century Fox in financial trouble ( that eventually led to discontent that resulted in the ousting of Darryl Zanuck ), the new output of the record company dropped to zero.

With the collapse of the market for musicals, Warner Bros., under production head Darryl F. Zanuck, turned to more socially realistic storylines, " torn from the headlines " pictures many in the media said glorified gangsters ; Warner Bros. soon became known as a " gangster studio ".

However, when Darryl F. Zanuck merged his fledgling studio, 20th Century Pictures, with Fox Film Corporation to form Twentieth Century Fox, her status became precarious and even tertiary to that of actresses Loretta Young and Shirley Temple, although she always received top billing in every movie that she made during the 1930s, including Ladies in Love ( 1937 ) with Constance Bennett, Young, and Tyrone Power.

Legend has it that the new independent took a detour straight into the major studio camp when Zanuck became outraged by United Artists ' board including UA's co-founder Mary Pickford's refusal to reward Twentieth Century with UA stock, fearing it would have diluted the value of holdings by another UA stockholder and co-founder, D. W. Griffith.

Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Fox's longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan.

Darnell and Power were cast together for the second time due to the box office success of Day-Time Wife, and they became a highly publicized onscreen couple, which prompted Darryl F. Zanuck to add 18 more romantic scenes to Brigham Young.

She became a hit with film audiences of the 1930s, particularly when Fox production head Darryl F. Zanuck made her his protégé.

Designed ostensibly as Faye's vehicle, the film all but became her celluloid epitaph when Zanuck, trying to build his new protege Linda Darnell, ordered many Faye scenes cut and Darnell emphasized.

In the 1960s Zanuck became the president of 20th Century Fox ; one year of his tenure, 1967, is chronicled in the John Gregory Dunne book The Studio.

The couple separated in 1956 over the studio mogul's affairs with other women, though they were never legally divorced ; but according to Zanuck biographers, she cared for him at their home from the time he became mentally incapacitated in the early 1970s until his death in 1979.

* 1934 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer

After filming was complete on Scarface, Hawks left Hughes to fight the legal battles and returned to First National to fulfill his contract, this time with producer Darryl F. Zanuck.

* 1902 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 1979 )

Participating were producer Richard D. Zanuck and screenwriter Pat Rushin.

In a bidding war with William Fox, Warner Bros. bought more First National shares on September 13, 1928 ; Jack Warner also appointed producer Darryl Zanuck as the studio's manager of First National Pictures.

Around that time, Warner Bros. head producer Darryl Zanuck hired screenwriter Wilson Mizner.

The same year, longtime head producer Darryl F. Zanuck quit.

* December 22 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer ( b. 1902 )

* July 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer ( b. 1934 )

Shortly before filming was completed, the producer Darryl F. Zanuck offered her the role of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve ( 1950 ).

Preminger finally convinced Zanuck the material needed a more subtle approach than Mamoulian was willing to give it, and the studio head allowed the producer to fire him and direct the film himself.

Between 1928 and 1933, Zanuck served as Jack Warner's right-hand man and executive producer, a position whose responsibilities included the day-to-day production of films.

The studio's executive producer, Darryl F. Zanuck, resigned during a contract dispute with Harry Warner in 1933.

* Darryl F. Zanuck, Academy Award – winning producer, writer, actor, director, studio executive, co-founder of 20th Century Films

To give the film as authentic a feel as possible, Kazan and producer Darryl F. Zanuck studied the numerous photographs that were taken during the revolutionary years, the period between 1909 and 1919 when Zapata led the fight to restore land taken from the people during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

Zanuck moved to Paris, setting up as an independent producer ; he did not set foot in California again for twenty years.

" Darryl F. Zanuck, founder of 20th Century Fox, said that during Thalberg's brief career, he had become the " most creative producer in the history of films.

In 1933, producer Darryl F. Zanuck cast Keeler in the Warner Bros. musical 42nd Street opposite Dick Powell and Bebe Daniels.

By the end of her six-month contract, Fox had merged into 20th Century Fox, with Darryl F. Zanuck serving as the executive producer.

By 1999, the novel reached Dean Zanuck, who was the vice president of development at his father's company, producer Richard D. Zanuck.

John Ford was originally hired to direct the film but was replaced after one week because producer Darryl F. Zanuck was unhappy with the dailies.

Fresh from his role as director of the British exterior segments in The Longest Day ( 1962 ), Annakin suggested an event from early aviation to Darryl F. Zanuck, his producer on The Longest Day.

Zanuck stated, " I think the Taylor-Burton association is quite constructive for our organization.

Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck gave the go-ahead for this project, and Blaustein hired Edmund North to write the screenplay based on elements from Harry Bates's short story Farewell to the Master.

Interim studio head William Goetz, serving in that capacity while Darryl F. Zanuck was fulfilling his military duty, assigned Preminger the task of developing the books for the screen, and he began working with Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt.

He filmed the actor delivering a monologue from the Coward play, and Zanuck agreed he was perfect for the role.

Zanuck was similarly campaigning for actor Reginald Gardiner to play the role of Shelby, though Fox contractee Vincent Price finally got the role.

After viewing the early rushes, Zanuck called a meeting with Mamoulian and Preminger, each of whom blamed the other for the problems on the set.

Screenwriter Darryl F. Zanuck produced several scripts for Rin Tin Tin vehicles and, during one year, wrote more than half of the studio's features.

He won accolades in the same year for his part in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, which brought him to the attention of Alexander Korda and Darryl F. Zanuck.

According to the supplemental material on the Blu-ray disc release, William Goldman's script, originally called The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy, was purchased by Richard Zanuck at 20th Century Fox for $ 400, 000, double the price the studio's board of directors had authorized.

He starred opposite Jessica Tandy in the 1940 Broadway production of Jupiter Laughs and in 1944, he was chosen by Darryl F. Zanuck to star in Wilson, the biographical film about US President Woodrow Wilson, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Schenck, who had been a UA stockholder for over ten years, resigned from United Artists in protest of the shoddy treatment of Twentieth Century, and Zanuck began discussions with other distributors, which led to talks with the foundering giant, Fox.

Zanuck quickly signed young actors who would carry Twentieth Century-Fox for years: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Sonja Henie, and Betty Grable.

While Zanuck went off for eighteen months ' war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by emphasizing light entertainment.

During the next few years, with pictures like The Razor's Edge, Wilson, Gentleman's Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films.

This offended Zanuck, still Fox's largest shareholder, for whom The Longest Day was a labor of love that he had dearly wanted to produce for years.

At the next board meeting, Zanuck spoke for eight hours, convincing directors that Skouras was mismanaging the company and that he was the only possible successor.

Although Lena Horne and other black actresses were considered, Darryl F. Zanuck chose to cast a white actress for fear of racial backlash.

In 1993, producers Steven Paul Leiva (" Space Jam ") and Jerry Rees, best known for writing and directing The Brave Little Toaster, began production on a new Betty Boop feature film for The Zanuck Company and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.