Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since You Went Away (Selznick-United Artists). The duck that hatched a swan was lucky compared to David Oliver Selznick. He hatched Gone With the Wind and has been trying to hatch another ever since. Last week he punctuated four pictureless years* with Since You Went Away, a marathon of home-front genre-filming. Sure enough, it was no Gone With the Wind. The Wind blew for four solid hours; Went goes on for ten minutes short of three. The Wind cost $4,000,000 to make; Went, a mere $2,400,000. The Wind was photographed in some...
...Delegate Ruth Buchanan, a Glendale housewife, spoke of his "duty to the nation." The words became more heated. There were mutterings that Warren was being a traitor to his Party, and cutting his political throat as well. A freshman delegate, burly, forthright Movie Producer David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Since You Went Away), stopped such talk. Said he: "Who are we to question our . . . Governor's decision? He's just as patriotic as any man in this room." At the end, Governor Warren still stood fast. The meeting adjourned...
Died. Myron Selznick, 45, Hollywood's heavy-jawed, hot-tempered, producer-squeezing, multimillionaire cinemactors' agent; of abdominal hemorrhages; in Santa Monica, Calif. Schoolboys Myron and David Selznick got $1,000-a-week allowances from their fabulous father Lewis, bankrupt jeweler who during the '20s ran a shoestring up to the $23,000,000 Select Pictures Corp. The brothers later made their own film fortune, separated in 1929 when Myron began his rise to key power as filmdom's No. 1 talent-broker...
...memory for detail is photographic. After half an hour in one Swiss village, he reproduced it in a set down to the last lintel and Lederhosen. When he came to the U.S., he flabbergasted David 0. Selznick's representatives by telling them precisely where everything in Manhattan was and how best to get there. And he could scarcely wait to see the police lineup, a treat to which he had been looking forward for years...
After he made The 3Q Steps (1935), Hollywood had its eye on Hitchcock. He was not only England's leading director; he was, with Rene Clair, possibly the most brilliant of all directors of fiction films. In 1938 he signed with David O. Selznick, because he thought Selznick produced Hollywood's best pictures. But he takes no back talk from Selznick. As a result, he fares better than any other Selznick property. Selznick lend-leased Hitchcock to-20th Century-Fox to make Lifeboat for $200,000. Hitch pocketed...