Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood last week remarked with interest the formation of a new cinema producing company-Selznick-Milestone Pictures, Ltd. Director general of the new company was Lewis Milestone (The Racket, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Front Page). President was David 0. Selznick. At 28, David Selznick has sometimes been described as one of the bright young men in an industry full of dull ones. Reared in a household which was kept awake at night by new and erratic ideas about cinema, he has been full of ideas ever since. His idea when he resigned from Paramount where...
This latest idea of young David Selznick's was ambitious enough to be like his father's, the best of which it resembled. And because shrewd young David Selznick is the son of Lewis J. Selznick, the new company was something more than a likely combination of creative and executive talent. It was a climax in a cycle, a Milestone in a legend...
...Selznick saga is a fantasy told in light signs over Broadway, a loud scandal whispered in file copies of Variety, a legend forgotten in the smoke that curled out of spittoons in the Claridge Hotel from cigarets that had gold tips and monograms. An epic and a joke, it has made Selznick the name of a dynasty in the weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold...
Engaged. Irene Mayer, 22, daughter of Cinemagnate Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn) Mayer; and David O. Selznick, 27, Assistant General Manager of Paramount-Famous-Lasky Studios; at Hollywood...