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He was one of the men responsible for instituting the system of Hollywood’s “casting couch,” which demanded women trade sexual favors with powerful executives for a chance at a movie role.
It was the same decade that Variety first used the now-ubiquitous term for the abuse of power that Zanuck and other Hollywood execs were perpetuating behind the scenes — “the casting couch,”...
Marilyn Monroe warned Joan Collins about studio executive Darryl Zanuck’s casting couch. If he didn’t “get what he [wanted],” Monroe said, he’d drop Collins’s contract. A few days later, Collins said, Zanuck propositioned her, telling her that he was Hollywood’s “biggest” and had the stamina to “go all night.”
It was in the latter position that he supposedly begat the modern casting couch, holding conferences with a variety of starlets in his office every afternoon from 4-4:30 p.m." The article further adds that "As some have argued, he may have learned this malicious practice from fellow studio head Harry Cohn, chief of Columbia Pictures during the ...
Hollywood’s Heinous ‘Casting Couch’ Culture That Enabled Harvey Weinstein. ENOUGH. The disgraced movie mogul isn’t the only sexual predator who’s terrorized Tinseltown. It’s an age-old epidemic...
The film won 1947’s Best Picture Oscar but, before that, Thomson tells us, “someone organised a gathering of Hollywood elders to impress upon Darryl Zanuck, the film’s producer, that it was...
Darryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century Studios, demanded sex from Marilyn in exchange for the movie roles (Photo by Sam Shaw) By now, you’ve heard of the MeToo movement or the crimes of Harvey Weinstein, but most likely you haven’t heard about the casting couch.
