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 promiscuous 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...See full bio »
There is nothing duller on the screen than being accurate but not dramatic.
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Trivia:
Like Charles Chaplin, he kept a dictionary in his office bathroom. Zanuck would escape to the bathroom to look up words his underlings would use that he didn't understand.
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