True Crime Podcast ‘Variety Confidential’ Tells the Shocking Story of a Hollywood Studio Kingpin
variety.comVariety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Darryl F. Zanuck was a legendary figure in Hollywood known for leading a major studio, producing top films and assaulting aspiring actresses in the 1930s.
That same decade, the term “casting couch” surfaced to describe the abuse of power by Zanuck and other high-powered men who were the gatekeepers of access to the big screen.
In “4 O’clock Girls,” the second episode of Variety and iHeart Podcasts’ true crime podcast “Variety Confidential,” host Tracy Pattin and co-host Matt Donnelly, Variety’s senior entertainment and media writer, detail Zanuck’s duplicitous and dangerous actions that reportedly took place daily at 4 p.m.
in his office. At the height of Hollywood’s studio system, Zanuck was a force in filmmaking. He made his name as a studio executive during his tenure as head of production for Warner Bros.
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