Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. Headliners: Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here (shelved in 1936); The Wizard of Oz in Technicolor; Northwest Passage with Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor; Quo Vadis?; The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming at M-G-M was borrowed by Producer Walter Wanger and made an overnight sensation in Algiers. M-G-M has scrapped a Lamarr-Spencer Tracy picture...
...owned U. A.'s studios since 1935 and last week renamed them the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Producer Goldwyn proposes to make Music School, with Violinist Jascha Heifetz, and The Real Glory, with Gary Cooper. Other U. A. producers and their promises: Charles Chaplin, The Dictators; David Selznick, Rebecca, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; Alexander Korda, five Technicolors, including two with his East Indian Mickey Rooney, Sabu; Walter Wanger, Vincent Sheean's Personal History; Hal Roach, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; Douglas Fairbanks, a biography of Adventuress Lola Montez called The Californian...
...route to Hollywood to make his first U. S. picture for Producer David Selznick, pudgy British Director Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes) stopped off to lecture Yale drama students in cinemanufacture. Excerpt: "Suspense can be introduced in a simple love story as well as the mystery or 'whodunit' picture. Make the audience suffer as much as possible...
Made for Each Other (United Artists-David Selznick) starts with a printed announcement on the screen: "Greater New York has a population of 7,434,346, among the least important of whom is. . . ." The camera cuts to a page of the Manhattan Telephone Directory and telescopes down on the name of "John Mason, lawyer." The opening action shot then shows Mason (James Stewart) pausing on his way to work to examine something he is carrying-a cabinet-size photograph of his wife (Carole Lombard...
Made for Each Other was produced by David Oliver Selznick, directed by John Cromwell, written by Jo Swerling and acted, principally, by James Stewart and Carole Lombard. Which of these deserves most credit for the indisputable fact that this mundane, domestic chronicle has more dramatic impact than all the hurricanes, sandstorms and earthquakes manufactured in Hollywood last season is a mystery which does not demand solution. What does demand solution is why, when Hollywood can make pictures as sound as Made for Each Other, it practically never does...