The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck
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The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck

The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
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The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck

The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE GOLDEN AGE MUSICALS OF DARRYL F. ZANUCK
  3. Title
  4. Dedication
  5. Copyright
  6. CONTENTS
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: The Writer from Wahoo
  10. Chapter 2: The Writer in Hollywood
  11. Chapter 3: The Sound (Literally) of Music
  12. Chapter 4: The Musical Recession
  13. Chapter 5: “Naughty, Bawdy, Gawdy, Sporty Forty-Second Street”
  14. Chapter 6: On the Twentieth Century
  15. Chapter 7: The Hyphenated Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox
  16. Chapter 8: The Last Days of Fox Film
  17. Chapter 9: Zanuck’s First Blonde
  18. Chapter 10: The Long Goodbye
  19. Chapter 11: The Zanuck Musical as Woman’s Film
  20. Chapter 12: The Musicalized Film: Shirley Temple, Sonja Henie, and Centennial Summer
  21. Chapter 13: Replacement Blonde
  22. Chapter 14: Zanuck’s Broadway
  23. Chapter 15: The Lady with the Million Dollar Legs
  24. Chapter 16: The Pocket Grable
  25. Chapter 17: The Cherry Blonde
  26. Chapter 18: Pin Down Girl
  27. Chapter 19: “I Hated Marilyn Monroe!”
  28. Chapter 20: The Blonde Exception
  29. Chapter 21: Four from Rodgers and Hammerstein: State Fair, Carousel, The King and I, and The Sound of Music
  30. Chapter 22: Richard Zanuck’s Follies: Doctor Dolittle, Star!, and Hello, Dolly!
  31. Chapter 23: Fade-Out
  32. Notes
  33. Filmography
  34. ABOUT THE AUTHOR