Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sanders of the River (London Films), an English effort to do for Africa what Hollywood in Lives of a Bengal Lancer did for India, is by far the most elaborate location picture yet turned out by a British studio. Zoltan Korda, brother of famed Producer-Director Alexander Korda, took an expedition to Africa, stayed there four months making background shots of the Congo River, tribal ceremonies among half a dozen brands of savages. At Shepperton-on-Thames. London Films' copy of an African village, complete with thatched huts, war canoes and burning-stake for prisoners, aroused so much excitement that...
Myron Selznick became a thriving agent whose firm now handles more actors, writers and directors than any other in Hollywood. His younger brother David Oliver Selznick worked up to be Producer Ben Schulberg's assistant at Paramount, left Paramount to be production chief at RKO, married a daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer, left RKO in 1932 to become an independent producer at MGM. In the last year, David Selznick has been itching to leave M-G-M to form a company of his own. Last month, when Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists...
Charlie Chan in Egypt (Fox) exhibits the hero of Hollywood's most durable saga investigating a murder case in Luxor where an archeologist has been shot, battered and mummified. When Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives on the scene, he promptly outlines his methods with a proverb: "Insignificant molehill sometimes more worthy of notice than conspicuous mountain." Aided by a dusky retainer and the fiance of the deceased archeologist's lovely daughter (Pat Paterson), he sets about selecting the guilty party from a group of suspects that include an Egyptian butler, a bad-tempered doctor, a druggist, an amiable...
Except for Carl Laemmle Jr. of Universal Pictures, David Selznick is the only able producing son of an able producing father in Hollywood. In an industry filled with jittery peewees, he is distinguished by being large, placid and affable. At M-G-M his most successful ventures were Viva Villa and David Copperfield, two of the most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Irving Thalberg (Norma Shearer); an 8-lb. daughter; in Hollywood. The Thalbergs have a son. Irving...