Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produced Gone With the Wind." He also recognized that his former glories could become a handful of dust. When the G.W.T.W. plantation set, including the mansion Tara, was finally dismantled and shipped to Atlanta in 1959, Selznick philosophized: "Once photographed, life here is ended. It is almost symbolic of Hollywood. Tara has no rooms inside. It was just a facade...
...early 1920s was a sort of Brown Derby East for the movie set. When his freewheeling days ended in bankruptcy in 1923, so did Son David's $300-a-week allowance and hopes for Yale. With his elder brother Myron, David staked himself for a trip to Hollywood by turning out two quickies that netted $16,000. Once there, David sold himself as a $100-a-week script reader at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, within months was an associate producer at triple the salary; Myron launched into a career as an agent, which in time landed...
Undisputed king of Hollywood at the time was Louis B. Mayer, who was convinced that "those Selznick boys will come to no good." Proving him wrong, David left MGM, became a $104,000-a-year boss at Paramount-and married the crown princess herself, L. B. Mayer's daughter Irene. L.B. imperiously refused to greet Selznick at the wedding, though when David at 30 returned to the M-G-M fold, wags quipped, "The son-in-law also rises." It was a canard that was not buried until Mayer's 1957 will, in which L.B. noted that...
...while in the process of firing him, "but if I'm going to fall on my face, it is going to be entirely my own mistake." What Selznick did be lieve in was quality, talent and free-spending, and it turned out to be a formula that gave Hollywood some of its finest hours. Selznick's Bill of Divorcement introduced Katharine Hepburn to films; Freddy Bartholomew was discovered for David Copperfield; Alfred Hitchcock was imported to direct Rebecca...
...Hollywood, Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Carole Lombard, Joan Fontaine and Myrna Loy advanced with Selznick's help. From abroad came Ingrid Bergman. But far and away, Selznick's most-discussed discovery was actually not his but his brother Myron's. In 1938 G.W.T.W. had gone into production with the hunt for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara still in full cry.* While the old sets on Selznick's 40-acre lot in Culver City, Calif., were being fired and thus providing the climactic scene of the burning of Atlanta, Myron emerged through...