...-director Johnson and producer Darryl F. Zanuck's eventual taming of Jones's power on the set mirrored the script's struggles between Betsy and her husband. But an analysis of the film and its production contexts also highlights the consequences of creating a masculine melodrama in a system that depended...

...Will Scheibel Famously touted as “the most beautiful woman in movie history” by Darryl F. Zanuck, the chief executive of Twentieth Century Fox, actress Gene Tierney achieved major stardom with Fox’s classic Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, US, 1944) following years of being typecast as an Orientalist...

... Ellen and validates Ruth, it derives much of its odd tone and powerful impact from the fact that Ellen is made to look more interesting than Ruth, despite her reprehensible ways. As Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck himself put it: “The woman in Leave Her to Heaven  deliberately kills her own...

..., who began in film, working in the script department of Paramount s Astoria studio, before serving as secretary to Gilbert Miller at Columbia. Hechtlinger also put in a decade-long stint as the story coordinator for Twentieth Century Fox under the direction of Darryl Zanuck. She is profiled in a 1942...

... fetishization in which Temple’s infantile sexuality was both deliberately manufactured and scrupulously preserved. As Twentieth Century Fox executive Darryl Zanuck commanded, “Keep her skirts high. Have co-stars lift her up whenever possible to create the illusion now selling so well. Preserve...

... (Twentieth Century Fox, 1948) for Pinky’s producer, Daryl Zanuck. Kazan suggests that Ford’s discomfiture with the script and his difficulties working with Ethel Waters might have added inducement to Ford to quit the project. (Kazan himself is very...