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THE LAST TYCOONS
in CinemaScope. It meant closing down the studios, spending a fortune on new equipment. He gambled that cinemas all over the world would go to the expense (which was high) of installing CinemaScope screens so that they could play his films. It is a tribute to the soundness of his instinct that his gamble came off.
I think Zanuck enjoyed taking the risk: for he is by nature a gambler.
Appropriately, it was at the Casino in Cannes that I saw him next. Every night you could see him there, an example of deadpan acting at its best, staking a million francs (£1,000) on the draw of a card.
Next to him, his constant companion, actress Bella Darvi, diamonds sparkling on her fingers, a mink stole draped over bare shoulders, was also getting a few kicks as she placed her £500 counters as if distributing table mats.
Some nights Mr. Zanuck was £10,000 up; other nights he was down. But always he came back to his same place at the baccarat table, cigar in mouth, his face as bored as Bogart's — as his thousand-pound counters were scooped away or alternatively doubled.
You could hear a diamond pin drop as he looked at his cards : but only the spectators were guilty of such bad form as a show of emotion. Next to him actress Bella Darvi played her aces as regally as if she were playing a queen. . . .
To see someone losing several thousand pounds in a couple of seconds without blinking an eyelid is to come to the conclusion that money is a much overrated commodity. Shove-ha'penny, I remember, was never played with such unconcern.
The following day, having lost 600 francs at roulette without managing to squeeze a single thrill out of it, I rang the man who finds it so entertaining to lose
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