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In Old Chicago: a Hollywood epic on stage and set
An inside look at how Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century Fox built the Chicago of 1854 to 1871 on the Westwood lot for In Old Chicago. The piece details research, sets, costumes, the artificial lake, the vast fire sequence, and the many workers behind the production navigating cost and scale.
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Aladdin
Hollywood
Chicago
U. S
Old
Darryl F. Zanuck
20Th Century-Fox
Westwood
Palmer House
Field, Leiter and Company
Adams Express Company
City Hals
Darryl Zanuck
America
O'Learys
O’leary
Niven Busch
the O’learys
Lamar Tratti
Sonya Levien
Royer
Williams Darling
Lew Pollack
Sidney D. Mitchell
Mack Garavon
Hhody
Los Angeles
Tyrone Power
Alice Faye
Don Amethe
Alice Brady
Andy Devine
Brian Danlevy
Tom Browe
Phsylus Brooks
Zanuck
Twentieth Century-Fox
Molly
Jack O'Leary
Don Ameche
Ubu
Holywood
Unio
Florence Richardson
Danny
Bevine Thexplan
O'Leary