David Brown (producer) editor of "Cosmopolitan" before his wife, Helen Gurley Brown, joined the magazine. In 1951, the producer Darryl F. Zanuck hired Brown to head the story department at Zanuck's studio, 20th Century-Fox. Brown eventually rose to become executive vice president of creative operations. He and Richard D. Zanuck, Darryl's son, left Fox in 1971 for Warner Bros., but the following year they set out to form their own production company. The caper film "The Sting" (1973) starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford was a Zanuck/Brown "presentation". In 1974, the company produced, along with Universal Pictures, "The Sugarland Express", Steven Spielberg's directorial
Jed Buell show ended. Buell married journalist Helen Gurley (no relation to Helen Gurley Brown) in 1934 with Helen acting as a story editor on several of Buell's films. The couple had one son Jed Buell Jr. born in 1939. Buell died on died September 29, 1961 Jed Buell Jed Buell born May 21, 1897 in Denver, Colorado died September 29, 1961 was an American film producer, director and screenwriter who specialised in low budget B pictures in a variety of subjects including singing cowboy films featuring midgets and black actors. The son of William J. Buell and Dora Phelps, Buell was