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Caption: Darryl F. Zanuck
About Darryl Francis Zanuck
Producer, Writer, Production Manager
Born: September 5, 1902
Star sign: Virgo
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Known for: All About Eve (1950), The Longest Day (1962), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Source: IMDB
One of the kingpins of Hollywood's studio system, Zanuck was the offspring of the ill-fated marriage of the alcoholic night clerk in Wahoo, Nebraska's only hotel and the hotel owner's daughter. Both parents had abandoned him by the time he was 13. At 15, he joined the U.S. Army, and he fought in Belgium in World War I. Mustered out, he kept ...
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