Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does differ-as Esther Blodgett is supposed to differ from her competitors-in essentials. Trenchantly directed by William Wellman who, with Robert Carson, conceived the story from which Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell wrote the screen play, handsomely photographed in the Technicolor which its producer, David Oliver Selznick, is pioneering with increasingly fortunate results, it emerges as a brilliant, honest and unfailingly exciting picture which, in the welter of verbiage about Hollywood heretofore contributed by stage and screen, stands as the last word and the best...
...Janet Gaynor, whose artistic growth in the past five years has not been noticeable, A Star Is Born supplies a role comparable to her Seventh Heaven (1927), but it is really Fredric March whose casting was a Selznick master stroke. An intelligent actor who studies his roles carefully, March's work in the past has often had, perhaps on this account, an elusive but annoying artificiality. In A Star Is Born this false note becomes precisely the true one required to make his performance in the role of actor the best since his similar job in The Royal Family...
...Manhattan, Director George Cukor described the kind of girl he was looking for to play Scarlett O'Hara in the cinema version of Gone With The Wind which he will direct for Selznick International. "The girl I select," said he, "must be possessed of the devil and charged with electricity. . . I want some one new. What I want is a really young and attractive girl but she must be stupid, cruel and relentless." Hollywood three days later it was revealed that the role had been assigned to Miriam Hopkins...
...reproduced on Arizona sands, the Garden of Allah is very pretty to look at, but hardly entertaining in itself after an hour or so. As so many directors before him, producer Selznick has relied on a panorama of Morrocco and its outlying districts to sustain an old story that had no business being converted into a movie in the first place. But to condemn the picture's direction and plot is not an deprecate either the acting of its stars or the Impressive Technicolor in which it is filmed. Marlene Dietrich as a rich adventuress and Charles Boyer...
...Discovery Sirs: This will probably give me the unenviable distinction of being the first Arizonian to refuse Arizona credit for something in favor of California. Nevertheless the sand visible in The Garden of Allah (TIME, Nov. 30, p 39) is not Arizona's but California's. The Selznick camp was in the California sand dunes about 18 mi. west of Yuma, though several of the notables connected with the making of the picture did put up at the San Carlos hotel in Yuma, the nearest town of any size...