Word: selznick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only recent connection with the theatre has been as professor of drama at Stephens College, Columbia. Mo. Recently, 65-year-old Maude Adams went to Culver City, Calif., took a screen test. Last week the result was announced: Miss Adams will star in a picture David Selznick plans to produce next fall. Said proud Cinemogul Selznick: "It will be a privilege to introduce her for the first time to the millions of the new generation...
...Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse like his name. Only a sprinkling backed Lawrin, the hillbilly colt, even though he had won the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah...
...Warner publicity department, the fleeting points of similarity between Jezebel and Gone With the Wind were words to the wise. Before long Hollywood was buzzing with gossip that Warners were out to steal the wind from Producer Selznick's sails. Soon gossips had another theme...
...audience sat David Selznick when Jezebel had its Hollywood premiere early this month. As Actress Davis venomously kicked aside convention, twisted the code of Southern chivalry, bit her lips to make them kissable, patted her cheeks with a hairbrush to make them scarlet, the audience glanced toward Producer Selznick to see how he liked these things that smacked of Gone With the Wind. If he let fall any comments, they fell in private...
Hollywood called Jezebel "terrific," predicted it would slow Mr. Selznick's Wind down to a breeze. Some wag suggested that the only one who might play Scarlett O'Hara after Bette Davis' performance was Mr. Paul Muni. Fact was that Bette Davis had gone full sail before the wind...