Word: selznick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change in the producers' lineup was announced. Finding his Pioneer Pictures handicapped by producing color pictures only, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney finally merged it with Selznick International, David Selznick heading the combine with Merian Cooper and Henry Ginsberg at his side. All releases will be through United Artists, Mr. Whitney's contract with RKO-Radio being allowed to lapse...
Like William Fox, Adolph Zukor, Jesse Lasky, Lewis J. Selznick and the rest of his picturesque competitors, Uncle Carl Laemmle was a brilliant showman. What other qualifications he had to run a major cinema company sometimes seemed mysterious. But for a long time none was necessary. Nepotism, always prevalent in Hollywood, was a fixed tradition at Universal City. On frequent trips to his birth place, Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl...
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Selznick...
...Frances Hodgson Burnett's famed story about an attachment between a small boy and his mother, which modern psychiatry might regard as dangerous if not traumatic, would automatically have been assured of an enthusiastic response from female cinemaddicts. However, not content to let the first production of Selznick International...
Pictures depend upon the haloed sentimentality of its source, Producer Selznick has made this picture much more than a stock sample of Hollywood lavender & old lace. Although it exudes the nostalgic charm that has proved so palatable to cinemaudiences in adaptations of other Victorian classics, it is essentially not the story of a little boy's exaggerated devotion to his mother but that of a Brooklyn urchin who makes good in the old country. Handsomely rewritten for the screen by Hugh Walpole, beautifully staged, and superbly directed by John Cromwell, it affords proof that Selznick International...