'Darryl Zanuck' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Liz & Dick (2012)
Actors:
Troy Waters (miscellaneous crew),
Lindsay Lohan (actress),
Stefón L.C. (miscellaneous crew),
André Devantier (miscellaneous crew),
Angelo Vacco (miscellaneous crew),
Kyle A. Clark (producer),
Theresa Russell (actress),
Lee Holdridge (composer),
John Arbuckle (miscellaneous crew),
Joe Cappelletti (miscellaneous crew),
Elizabeth Himelstein (miscellaneous crew),
Zach Bradshaw (miscellaneous crew),
Massi Furlan (actor),
Lina Wong (producer),
Charles Shaughnessy (actor),
Plot: On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky, passionate, relationship, born in front of the cameras, was subsequently captured in a series of films, including The V.I.P.s and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The last of the great, extravagant stars, flaunting diamonds, yachts and private planes, they continually seized the headlines. They even divorced and married again - only to divorce again - but remain in each other's hearts. This Elizabeth Taylor - Richard Burton story is a no-holds barred account of their undying, but impossible love.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, academy-award, academy-awards-ceremony, actor, actress, adultery, affair, alcohol, alcohol-abuse
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Taglines: Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor.
Quotes:
Italian Doctor: I don't want to say it's colon cancer, but...
Sara Taylor: Not that I'm counting, but if I'm not mistaken you just ended what, your fourth marriage?::Elizabeth Taylor: Oh, who's counting?
Elizabeth Taylor: I'm bored. I'm so bored!
Elizabeth Taylor: Feel my pudgy hands now!
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Actors:
Clement von Franckenstein (actor),
Loretta Devine (actress),
Raphael Sbarge (actor),
William Atherton (actor),
Joanne Baron (actress),
Halle Berry (actress),
Brent Spiner (actor),
D.B. Sweeney (actor),
Larry Poindexter (actor),
Dave Mallow (actor),
Klaus Maria Brandauer (actor),
Guy Torry (actor),
Obba Babatundé (actor),
Elmer Bernstein (composer),
Halle Berry (producer),
Plot: This biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for "Carmen Jones", to her final demise to prescription drugs, which was debated whether it was suicide or accidental. Brent Spiner plays her faithful manager who stood beside her through all of the roller coaster of her career. The film also examines her love affair with director Otto Preminger, which is shown to have probably initially helped her career, but later probably led her to some wrong decisions. The film also examines 50's racism as the black star is not permitted to use white bathrooms or the Vegas pool. In the first situation, she was given a bathroom cup to pee in. In the second situation, the hotel drained the pool and scrubbed it after she dared put her foot in the water.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, abuse, academy-award, actor, actress, adultery, african-american, alcoholism
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Music,
Romance,
Taglines: Right woman. Right place. Wrong time. She was everything America wanted a movie star to be... except white.
Quotes:
Harold Nicholas: Dottie, it's a whole different ballgame over there! They don't know the difference between black and white, and when they do, it's because they're treating us better than they treat their own!::Dorothy Dandridge: I can't go to Paris! Lynn is going to need special care!::Harold Nicholas: Then get special care.::Dorothy Dandridge: Not in an institution!::Harold Nicholas: Dottie, she doesn't even know we're here.::Dorothy Dandridge: I'm her mother. And you are her father.::Harold Nicholas: And I married you. Not this.::Dorothy Dandridge: Well, I am this! What are you?::Harold Nicholas: I'm Harold Nicholas, of the Nicholas Brothers. And maybe that's all I'm supposed to be.
Earl Mills: [notices thick makeup on Dorothy's face] What happened to your face?::Dorothy Dandridge: Guess I wasn't black enough to lead the tribe.
Vivian Dandridge: You think because you've become a big film star by shaking your tail, people aren't going to treat you like you're colored? Well, I'm something too! I'm something too! I'm more than Dorothy Dandridge's *big sister*! Didn't you ever notice that? Didn't you?
Dorothy Dandridge: Have you seen my man? That Carmen Jones snatched him from me and I'm all lost over what to do about it. Can't decide. If it's better I follow him up to the Windy City, or should I wait? Wait for him to come back to his happy-hearted home? Tell me what to do... I'm Cindy Lou.::Otto Preminger: The hell you are.
Dorothy Dandridge: Harold says I'm the most beautiful girl in the world.::Geri Nicholas: I'd rather be smart than beautiful.::Dorothy Dandridge: Well, I'd rather be beautiful.::Geri Nicholas: Beauty fades. A woman gets old.::Dorothy Dandridge: Not me. I'm staying young and beautiful unti the day I die!
Dorothy Dandridge: Have you ever caught sight of yourself by accident and you see yourself from the outside? That's who you really are.
Mocambo Emcee: Ladies and gentlemen, the delicious... the divine... the delightful... Dorothy Danridge!
Dorothy Dandridge: [angrily] Tonight, I'll take my bows and exit stage rear, go through the kitchen, past the casino, around the pool, which I'm apparently too dirty to swim in, up the service elevator, into my luxurious penthouse, sip my complimentary champagne, and pee in a brand new Dixie cup!::Earl Mills: I take that walk with you every night, you know.::Dorothy Dandridge: But the difference is, Earl, you don't HAVE to!
Dorothy Dandridge: [after Otto attends the premiere of "Carmen Jones" with his wife] How dare you parade her in front of me.::Otto Preminger: I didn't know she was coming.::Dorothy Dandridge: It was *my* night, Otto! You won't be seen with me in public, but then I have to watch you traipse around with her!::Otto Preminger: She's my wife.::Dorothy Dandridge: Tell her to leave. You have an understanding, remember? She openly makes the rounds with another man, Otto, and you don't complain about it! So, why couldn't you spend the evening with me?
RKO 281 (1999)
Actors:
Ridley Scott (producer),
Melanie Griffith (actress),
Brenda Blethyn (actress),
Fiona Shaw (actress),
James Cromwell (actor),
Liev Schreiber (actor),
Kerry Shale (actor),
Jay Benedict (actor),
Liam Cunningham (actor),
David Suchet (actor),
Cyril Shaps (actor),
Roy Scheider (actor),
John Malkovich (actor),
John Altman (composer),
Tony Scott (producer),
Plot: Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, anti-semitism, bankruptcy, based-on-documentary, based-on-true-story, censorship, director, film-director, film-industry
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Quotes:
Welles's Mother: Orson, come into the light. Never stand in the shadows -- you were made for the light. Always remember that.
[last lines]::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: All stars burn out, Orson. It's the flame that counts.::Orson Welles: [toasts] To the flame.::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: To the flame.
William Randolph Hearst: There is nothing to understand. Only this: I am a man who could have been great, but was not.
[Addressing the RKO shareholders]::Orson Welles: Good afternoon. Today a man from Germany invaded Greece. He's already swallowed Poland, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium. He's bombing London as I speak. Everywhere this man goes he crushes the life and the freedom of his subjects. He sews yellow stars on their lapels, he takes their voices. In this country, we still have our voices. We can argue with them, and we can sing, and we can be heard because we are, for the moment, free. No one can tell us what to say or how to say it, can they? Gentlemen, I am one voice; that is all. My picture is one voice, one view, one opinion, nothing more. Men are dying in Europe now, and Americans soon will be so that we can surmount the tyrants and the dictators. Will you send a message across America that one man can take away our voices? So, who is Mr. Hearst, and who is Mr. Welles? Well, Mr. Hearst built a palace of brick and mortar, and little wars and corpses piled high. Mr. Welles built a palace of illusion. It's a, what we call a matte painting, it's a camera trick, it's nothing. Nothing but a dream. Today you have the chance to let the dream triumph. Thank you.
Orson Welles: Everything I am, everything I could be is in that picture.
Orson Welles: I expected better of you, Mank.::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Me too, but I got used to it.
Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: What about Marion?::Orson Welles: Another animal in his zoo.::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: That is love to him. "I love you, I built you a beautiful cage."
Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Every man loves, Orson. Or has loved.
William Randolph Hearst: My battle with the world is almost over. Yours is just beginning.::Orson Welles: Kane would've taken the tickets.
[In the lobby, opening night]::Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Rosebud's a sled! Rosebud's a sled.
Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996)
Actors:
Ashley Judd (actress),
Marianne Muellerleile (actress),
Beth Grant (actress),
Earl Boen (actor),
John Rubinstein (actor),
Edith Fields (actress),
Lindsay Crouse (actress),
David Dukes (actor),
Jeffrey Combs (actor),
Allan Corduner (actor),
Peter Dobson (actor),
Scott Menville (actor),
Ron Rifkin (actor),
Christopher Young (composer),
Mira Sorvino (actress),
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Taglines: Marilyn Monroe was our fantasy. Norma Jean was her reality.
Quotes:
Marilyn Monroe: Oh, no, Johnny, you need your rest.::Johnny Hyde: I'll get my rest when I'm dead, which is going to be sooner rather than later. You know that, Marilyn.
Johnny Hyde: How can you be so cold?::Marilyn Monroe: Because you let me.
Marilyn Monroe: Oh, that's what I love about you, Monty. You're the only one I know that's more fucked up than me.
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Actors:
George Wendt (actor),
Sam Wanamaker (actor),
Tom Sizemore (actor),
Martin Scorsese (actor),
Allan Rich (actor),
Barry Primus (actor),
Gailard Sartain (actor),
Robin Gammell (actor),
Adam Baldwin (actor),
Chris Cooper (actor),
Robert De Niro (actor),
Stuart Margolin (actor),
Stephen Root (actor),
Illeana Douglas (actress),
Annette Bening (actress),
Plot: David Merrill ('Robert De Niro' (qv)), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and he is unable to work until cleared. Before being called, his highest priority had been his work to the extent of leaving his wife ('Annette Bening' (qv)) and son ('Luke Edwards (I)' (qv)) alone for months at a time. He initially refuses to implicate others or himself in a private meeting with Roy Cohn and a studio lawyer. This decision initially to stick to his principles first leaves him unable to work in his profession, even with films and producers he never would have worked with before. Harassment by the FBI leaves him unable to work on Broadway, with advertising agencies, or even in a small film repair shop. Finally, having fallen so far, and tempted with a new offer to direct a film from his old studio (if he testifies), he agrees to go before the Committee, initially planning to name his friends. But when confronted with the cruel and tyrannical behavior of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, he realizes that there is a higher priority in his life there is standing up for what is right. And in doing so, he inspires friends and family to do the same.
Keywords: 1950s, blacklist, blacklisting, box-office-flop, film-director, hearings, house-unamerican-activities-committee, lingerie-slip, mccarthy-hearings, mccarthyism
Genres:
Drama,
Thriller,
Taglines: All it took was a whisper.
Quotes:
David Merrill: [to the Blacklist Committee] Fuck them!
Ruth Merrill: Uh, I'm seeing Dorothy tonight. Paulie's gonna stay at his friends. I thought I'd take her to one of those places out by Malibu.::David Merrill: Malibu, can you afford that?::Ruth Merrill: Can you believe you said that?::David Merrill: No, I'd never say anything like that.::Ruth Merrill: Wanna go?::David Merrill: Sure, do you mind?::Ruth Merrill: Yeah. [she leaves]
Larry Nolan: Don't make me crawl through the mud... they're my friends.
Dorothy Nolan: I'm afraid to talk to my friends, my husband is crazy, we're all dead!
David Merrill: ...I inform on these people, they lose their jobs, they lose their... everything.
David Merrill: [to Joe Lesser] You just can't let them do this to you, you can't let them get away with this.
David Merrill: Upset? Why should I be upset? You've only ruined my life. Why should I be upset?
David Merrill: You asked me how I'm doing. You wanna know how I'm doing? I can't get a job... can't get a job. All my friends - gone. I'm being followed by the FBI everywhere I go. I lost my house. I can't even buy my son a bike for Christmas.
David Merrill: I'm a filmmaker. That's all I am, I don't know what else to do. What the hell do they think I'm gonna do? Blow all the bridges if the Red Army comes invading Manhattan?
David Merrill: [about Dorothy Nolan] She was a good wife, a good mother, and you're responsible for her death. She was falsely accused, she couldn't get work, her son was taken away from her - all because of this committee. In the name of ridding the world of Communism, you destroyed her life.
This Year's Blonde (1980)
Actors:
Travilla (costume designer),
Philip Sterling (actor),
Garson Kanin (writer),
Elmer Bernstein (composer),
Vic Tayback (actor),
Peter Maloney (actor),
Lee Wilkof (actor),
John Marley (actor),
John Dennis (actor),
David L. Wolper (producer),
Lloyd Bridges (actor),
Norman Fell (actor),
Michael Lerner (actor),
Stuart Whitman (miscellaneous crew),
John Erman (director),
Plot: First of two 1980 TV movies about Marilyn Monroe which this one details her days as an aspiring actress through her love affair with high-powered agent Johnny Hyde to the brink of stardom on the eve of his sudden death.
Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres:
Drama,
