Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because this particular victim of Holly wood's wonderful ways happens to be 1) intelligent, 2) candid, 3) now free to talk - her long-term contract with Warner has just expired ("thank God") - Miss Fitzgerald has finally explained all. Any Hollywoodenhead would insist that it was entirely her own fault, and, in a measure, she would cheerfully agree...
...trouble started in the rush of her first success when Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights made it clear that she would soon become a major star. David Selznick wanted her for the title role in Hitchcock's smash Rebecca, but she turned it down. She was under contract to Warner for half of each year; if she worked for Selznick, he would own the other half. She preferred to spend it with her husband, in Ireland. That sort of independence is neither admired nor understood in Hollywood. It didn't exactly enhance her stock, either, when she returned...
Selznick and Rank had formed a new company-Selznick International Pictures of England, Ltd. It was to be financed 100% by Rank (as board chairman), and run by Selznick (as executive producer). Under the contract, voting powers would be equal. In 1946 they would make three pictures abroad. The first would be a $5 million special called "Mary Magdalene," starring Selznick-owned Joseph Gotten and Ingrid Bergman...
...Contract Termination Is Crux...
Miss Roche started out bravely. She bought control of Rocky Mountain Fuel, then rammed through the first mine union contract in Colorado history. R.M.F., which has lost $648,570 to date, began to perk up-principally on business from unions and liberal Democrats...