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
Helen Haig-Brown and directed. She completed a feature film, "My Legacy", examining the universal and personal theme of mother-daughter relations. The film was screened at the Victoria Film Festival, and was shown on the APTN Network in 2014. The film is supported by an interactive web page. Helen Haig-Brown Helen Haig-Brown is a Tsilhqot'in filmmaker working primarily with indigenous and First Nations themes. Many of these derive from her maternal roots in the Tsilhqot'in First Nation. Helen Haig-Brown is from the Yunesit'in community of the Tsilhqot'in Nation. She is the granddaughter of naturalist Roderick Haig-Brown and daughter of Alan Haig-Brown. She graduated