Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Frank F. Merriam, ensconced behind a large box of fresh-mixed concrete. Announcing that Culver City no longer coveted her neighbor's name, President Walker with a splendid gesture passed over to the Hollywood camp a box inscribed, "Culver City presents to Hollywood the Culver City-made Selznick International Picture, The Prisoner of Zenda. Before anyone could say Selznick he plunged a shiny hatchet deep in the moist cement. Ten minutes later, The Prisoner of Zenda opened at the Chinese Theatre...
...Prisoner of Zenda (Selznick International). From the day of its publication, 43 years ago, Anthony Hope's famed Ruritanian romance was a dramatic natural. Since 1895 The Prisoner of Zenda has swashbuckled over the stages of the English-speaking world. In 1922 Rex Ingram produced a silent cinema version. Last week Producer David Selznick gave this colorful hardy perennial the finest treatment it has ever had. Slicked up by Screenwriters Wells Root and John L. Balderston, well-cast, well-acted and beautifully staged, The Prisoner of Zenda will hardly hearten those who want Hollywood to skate out where...
...mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan opening by plane. Few Zenda-ites had ever been outside their farming countryside: none had ever flown. In Manhattan they were lodged at a hotel, sent on a tour of the city, flown back two days later...
...revenue went to Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford even when they made no pictures. Under the new terms, all will go to Producers Goldwyn & Korda but if any of the original members feels like making a picture, United Artists will distribute it. The deal does not affect producers like David Selznick and Walter Wanger who distribute through United Artists but are not partners. It gives Producer Goldwyn in Hollywood and Producer Korda in London a better chance to profit from their own enterprises. It also gives Producer Korda, who has been dissatisfied with U. S. exhibitors' handling of his pictures...
United Artists' liveliest members are David Selznick, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn in Hollywood, Alexander Korda in London. In New York last week for conferences were Producers Selznick and Korda, and Producer Selznick's chief backer, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Chief problem before Selznick International was still: who will play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind? Last week Producer Selznick failed to substantiate a rumor that Rhett had been assigned to an obscure American actor discovered in British cinema named Ken Duncan. Backer Whitney's wife, Philadelphia's sprightly onetime...