The golden age musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck the gentleman preferred blondes / Bernard F. Dick.
| Author/creator | Dick, Bernard F. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022] |
| Description | 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- The writer from Wahoo -- The writer in Hollywood -- The sound (literally) of music -- The musical recession -- "Naughty, bawdy, gawdy, sporty Forty-Second Street" -- On the twentieth century -- The hyphenated studio: Twentieth Century-Fox -- The last days of Fox Film -- Zanuck's first blonde: Alice Faye -- The long goodbye -- The Zanuck musical as woman's film -- The musicalized film: Shirley Temple, Sonja Henie, and Centennial Summer -- Replacement blonde: Betty Grable -- Zanuck's Broadway -- The lady with the million dollar legs -- The pocket Grable: June Haver -- The cherry blonde: Vivian Blaine -- Pin down girl -- "I hated Marilyn Monroe!" -- The blonde exception: Mitzi Gaynor -- Four from Rodgers and Hammerstein: State Fair, Carousel, The King and I, and The Sound of Music -- Richard Zanuck's follies: Doctor Doolittle, Star!, and Hello, Dolly! -- Fade-out -- Notes -- Filmography -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Beginning with The Jazz Singer (1927) and 42nd Street (1933), legendary Hollywood film producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979) revolutionized the movie musical, cementing its place in American popular culture. Zanuck, who got his start writing stories and scripts in the silent film era, worked his way to becoming a top production executive at Warner Bros. in the later 1920s and early 1930s. Leaving that studio in 1933, he and industry executive Joseph Schenck formed Twentieth Century Pictures, an independent Hollywood motion picture production company. In 1935, Zanuck merged his Twentieth Century Pictures with the ailing Fox Film Corporation, resulting in the combined Twentieth Century-Fox, which instantly became a new major Hollywood film entity. The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes is the first book devoted to the musicals that Zanuck produced at these three studios. The volume spotlights how he placed his personal imprint on the genre and how-especially at Twentieth Century-Fox-he nurtured and showcased several blonde female stars who headlined the studio's musicals-including Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Vivian Blaine, June Haver, Marilyn Monroe, and Sheree North. Building upon Bernard F. Dick's previous work in That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical, this volume illustrates the richness of the American movie musical, tracing how these song-and-dance films fit within the career of Darryl F. Zanuck and within the timeline of Hollywood history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021048516 |
| ISBN | 9781496838612 (hardcover) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |