Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours" was, in 1919, the best-known slogan in the amusement industry. Lewis J. Selznick, a onetime Pittsburgh jewelry salesman, had got his start as a cinema producer six years before by walking into the office...
...making David Copperfield, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer went to vast expense and trouble. Before assembling his cast, Producer David Selznick journeyed to England with Director George Cukor and Scenarist Howard Estabrook. They brought back Author Hugh Walpole, to add his famed name to Scenarist Estabrook's act briefly as the Vicar of Blunderstone in the film. Five hundred boys were tested for the part of David before little Freddie Bartholomew of Wiltshire, England was picked. The picture cost approximately $1,000,000 and took a year to make. The result of all this money and mind, time and talent...
Moon-faced, round-eyed, George Cukor looks like Producer David Selznick in a convex mirror. Irritated by jokes about the resemblance, he recently reduced 40 lb. in 25 weeks. Pictures full of lavender emotion are his specialty. He made Little Women and A Bill of Divorcement for RKO. He dresses to match in blue ensembles, starched linen trousers in shades of mauve and cerise. An excellent craftsman, temperamental to the point of hysterics, he fumes and fusses for perfection. His next picture will be David Copperfield...
...Metropolis), on his way to Hollywood for the second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with his wife Irene, daughter of MGM's potent...
...party is ideal. As a frame for one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last winter was even better. The actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director George Cukor, John Barrymore (Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie Dressier (Carlotta Vance), Jean Harlow (Kitty...