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Slumming with Zanuck
Mok, Michel | February 3, 1940 issue

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The private preview of Darryl F. Zanuck's film version of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" was at the Normandie Theater in New York. After a newsreel the Okie odyssey was finally un- veiled. In the dark it was of course impossible to get a clue to reactions of Zanuck's chichi guests and that, perhaps, was just as well. Except for a smattering of applause from the balcony when the migrant farmers at the government camp foiled deputies' scheme to break up their dance and a general polite round at the finish, the invited audience witnessed the picture in silence.

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PREVIEWS; GRAPES of Wrath, The (Theatrical production); ZANUCK, Darryl F.; STEINBACK, John; THEATERS -- New York (State); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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