#darryl zanuck

[citizenscreen]

Marilyn Monroe with Darryl Zanuck at Romanoff's Restaurant for THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH wrap party in 1954.

[twixnmix]

Betty Grable, Darryl Zanuck, Marilyn Monroe, Walter Winchell, Lucille Ball, Jimmy McHugh, Jane Russell, and Louella Parsons at Walter Winchell's party for Louella Parsons at Ciro's Nightclub in West Hollywood, May 1953.

[thursdaymurderbub]

Excerpt from a 1972 interview with Joan Blondell done on the set of Banyon (1972-1973). Taken from Conversations with Classic Film Stars: interviews from Hollywood's golden era (2016) by James Bawden and Ron Miller.

[gregorygalloway]

G Men premiered on 18 April 1935 before wider released in May.

Facing criticism for glorifying crime in such film as Little Ceasar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932), Warner Bros. decided to produce a film that honored the crime fighters.

The film was based on the novel Public Enemy No. 1 by Gregory Rogers (which was in fact the pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck, head of production at Warner).

James Cagney (who had his breakthrough with The Public Enemy) was one of the top box office draws when G Men was released and his performance received more positive reviews ("other side of the law, same Cagney") and G Men was one of the top box office films of 1935.

For the 1949 re-release of the film (the FBI's 25th anniversary), a prologue was added to the film with a FBI agent introducing the film to recruits. This prologue is still in most prints.

[electronicsquid]

Darryl F. Zanuck

(Carlo Bavagnoli. 1965?)

[jeanharlowshair]

Photoplay Magazine, October 1944.

[oldshowbiz]

[gatabella]

Marilyn Monroe, Lucille Ball and Betty Grable at columnist Walter Winchell's birthday party at Ciro's nightclub, 1953