BIB_ID
317336
Accession number
MA 3659.63
Creator
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979.
Display Date
1950 June 7.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters, documents, memoranda, telegrams, clippings, printed matter and maps related to the film Viva Zapata!, which was produced by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
Summary
Asking him to give the following confidential information to Kazan so he can study it before they speak on the telephone the following day. Discussing the political ramifications of their work on Zapata; noting that everyone with whom Kazan has worked so far "are definitely either communists or leftwingers" and that they do not want to jeopardize their positions in Mexico by associating themselves with the project unless it is definitely pro-left or pro-communistic. Referencing a similar situation that he experienced in France two years before and noting that while it is clear that the cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa would like to work on the project, he "has deeper responsibilities and is afraid to be associated with it unless it goes 100 percent to the left." Suggesting that they first finalize the script and then distribute it widely to the Mexican authorities.
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