Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) produced some of the most important and controversial films in Hollywood. He co-founded 20th Century-Fox studios and helped entertain moviegoers as a producer for over 50 years. Three of his films won Academy Awards for...

Darryl F. Zanuck ranks as one of the most famous, long-lived of Hollywood's movie moguls. He oversaw scores of films and created many film stars. Many of these films and their stars were tremendously popular at the time and remain so today. He...

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902–December 22, 1979) was a producer, writer, actor and director who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of...

by George F. Custen. NY: BasicBooks, 1997. 435 pp., illus. Hardcover. $27.50. George Custen's hagiographic biography of producer Darryl F. Zanuck takes the form of a biopic (the subject of Custen's last book). Custen encourages us to root for the foxlike mogul...

MEMO FROM DARRYL F. ZANUCK: The Golden Years at Twentieth Century-Fox Edited by Rudy Behlmer. Grove, $22.95 (320p) ISBN 0-8021-1540-3 Zanuck, production chief at Fox during the studio's heyday (1935-1956), was the organizational genius behind such films as The Grapes of Wrath,...

DisneyWar, by James B. Stewart. Simon and Schuster, 572 pages, $29.95.Thirty-odd years ago, it would have been, I was summoned to the office of Frederick L. Ehrman, chief executive of Lehman Brothers, the firm of which I was then a partner, and informed that I...

Dynasties have their own logic, but generally they’re supposed to go to youth. The Murdoch family succession is going in the opposite direction. Now that Lachlan Murdoch has resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., a Post spokesperson has told The Observer that...