Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still unreleased contenders for 1946 honors: MGM's The Yearling, David O. Selznick's Duel...
...David 0. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, with all its dazzling cast and alleged $7 million cost, is nonetheless a horse opera. So are Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (which started out to be a story of Billy the Kid, but now features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan Bennett. ¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman...
People & Money. A.R.I.'s top-drawer clients include such shrewd and seasoned manufacturers as Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney, MGM, David 0. Selznick, Hal Wallis, J. Arthur Rank, RKO. After ten years of cautious experimenting and testing, A.R.I, is equipped with everything from Gallup interviewers to electrical gadgets that measure audience boredom. Its trade lingo glitters with professionalisms: A.P. (Audience Penetration), Want-to-See, Don't-Want-to-See, Word-of-Mouth...
...actor, was thrust on a blond, dark-browed, sensationally handsome young man whose entire previous acting experience consisted of one movie bit part. Guy Madison, 24, ex-telephone lineman, was allowed a seven-day leave from the Navy in 1944 to speak a few lines in a David O. Selznick production. The volume of ecstatic bobby-sox fan mail (some 62,000 letters, many addressed simply to The Cute Sailor in Since You Went Away) was staggering...
...Year for Oaters. The first Successful storytelling movie made in the U.S., The Great Train Robbery (1903) was what the trade calls an oater-a Western. David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, which at $6,000,000 will outcost any other film ever made, is essentially another oater. Inspired less by Duel than by the end of war and the insatiable appetite for action, the major studios are this year spending some $20,000,000 on "class" oaters...