Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company took over all assets and contracts of David 0. Selznick Productions, announced it had no stock to sell the public. It will produce, on United Artists' lot where Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...
...kill herself. Largely omitted from all this are the vital secondary themes of the novel, the marriage of Levin (Gyles Isham) and Kitty (Maureen O'Sullivan), the complex affairs of Anna's brother Stiva (Reginald Owen) and his wife (Phoebe Foster). Far more important, however, is what Producer David Selznick and Director Clarence Brown contrived to stretch the limitations of their medium to include: the strong essential melodrama of Anna Karenina's career and the savage, cold and fantastically elaborate background against which her doom is outlined...
Universal, putting on an abandoned desk a sign labeled "General Manager" and sitting down behind it. Three years later, overexpansion had put Selznick Pictures out of the industry but not the Selznick name which was carried on by two of Lewis Selznick's sons...
...Myron Selznick became a thriving agent whose firm now handles more actors, writers and directors than any other in Hollywood. His younger brother David Oliver Selznick worked up to be Producer Ben Schulberg's assistant at Paramount, left Paramount to be production chief at RKO, married a daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer, left RKO in 1932 to become an independent producer at MGM. In the last year, David Selznick has been itching to leave M-G-M to form a company of his own. Last month, when Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists...
Except for Carl Laemmle Jr. of Universal Pictures, David Selznick is the only able producing son of an able producing father in Hollywood. In an industry filled with jittery peewees, he is distinguished by being large, placid and affable. At M-G-M his most successful ventures were Viva Villa and David Copperfield, two of the most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions...