Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost a year bright little Sidney Skolsky has been a columnist without a column. A onetime Earl Carroll press-agent and Broadway gossip, Skolsky went to Hollywood for the New York Daily News in 1934, quit three years later when he was ordered back to New York. He worked for a while for King Features Syndicate, but he and Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs...
...earnings for the past two years and of his hypothetical earnings for the next two) by the high-powered talent agency of Myron Selznick & Co., which claimed that it got Producer Brown his $2,250-a-week-and-up contract with 20th Century-Fox. Ordinarily for a talent agent to sue a producer would be comparable to a camp follower giving a general the hotfoot. Last week's suit was one more proof that the hotfoot is Agent Myron Selznick's specialty...
Several inches shorter, three years older, and much richer than his Producer-Brother David (Gone With the Wind), dumpy, belligerent Myron Selznick at 40 is not only Hollywood's No. 1 agent but one of its most influential individuals. He found his career by accident by getting his friend...
...Manhattan Telephone Directory as a concession to unsophisticated clients) represents some 200 performers and directors who include most of Hollywood's big names. For getting their jobs, boosting their salaries and performing a variety of other services from straightening out their household accounts to watching their income taxes, Agent Selznick collects a straight 10% of their earnings, binds them to five-year contracts. In Hollywood round numbers, the Selznick clients' payroll is annually $10,000,000, the Selznick Co. tithe $1,000,000. But Agent Selznick is also reputed to hold pieces in several rival talent agencies...
Like all dangerously powerful Hollywood figures, Myron Selznick is often rumored to be "slipping." In the ups-&-downs of the agency business, Agent Selznick has faced stiffer competition since his valuable partner Frank Joyce died two years ago and since Leland Hayward, Margaret Sullavan's husband, pulled out of the Selznick partnership. Last year Hollywood gasped when 20th Century-Fox's President Joseph M. Schenck, exasperated with Selznick's demands for Loretta Young, ordered him off the Fox lot. So far, the only person who has caught Myron Selznick napping is his friend and client, Carole Lombard...