Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important man, lasted almost a year, for in the film it goes for less than a day. And you never learn of her second marriage, of her deep remorse at being a barren woman, and of her bitter feud with her studio and its head, Louis B. Mayer...
...could forgive the film's historical mistakes if it had been honest in what it had shown, if it had not protected those persons who deserved criticism. But changing Mayer's name to Everett Redman, and making him into a kind, fatherly type, is pleasing the Devil, not protecting the innocent. Hollywood still has a lot of growing up to do when it can manufacture a film about moviemaking in the 1930's and conceal the character and identity of the biggest power in that industry...
...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 him on the top of the heap...
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...
...Industry Needs You." Jennifer Jones, an Oscar winner for her role in Song of Bernadette, was a young actress that Selznick found. He starred her in Since You Went Away, Duel in the Sun and Portrait of Jenny. In 1948 Selznick divorced Irene Mayer, in 1949 married Jennifer. After the marriage, Selznick virtually retired from film making, produced only one more picture-Farewell to Arms (1958) with Jennifer Jones. But semiretirement did little to modify his compulsive ways. For Farewell, he wore out three secretaries while dictating a total of 10,000 memos, ranging from single sentences...