Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bette Davis. They alcoholically splurged for a couple of hours as the lesser Academy Awards were doled out, pulled themselves together at last as John Ford (the only directorial nominee not present) got his Oscar for the year's best direction (The Grapes of Wrath). Then panting David Selznick got one for the best production (Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall Be No Night, rose to hand the Oscar for character to Jane Darwell (for Ma Joad, in The Grapes), the noblest Oscar of them all (for Kitty...
...Selznick's production in color abounds...
...from his contract was Producer Goldwyn. United Artists arranged to buy in his stock for a rumored $300,000. Last week United Artists' executive chief, Murray Silverstone, was looking about for another partner to replace Goldwyn, had his eye on independent Producer David Oliver (Gone With the Wind) Selznick...
Russell Birdwell, most spectacular of the three, is a fox-faced, natty fellow with a thin mustache and a strange accent modeled after the English. Two years ago, Birdwell left his job as head of Selznick International's publicity department to set up shop for himself. Three pretty secretaries guard his locked inner office, where he works long & hard creating gags for Selznick (whose account he still handles) and a number of individual actors like Carole Lombard, who are willing to pay as much as $25,000 a year to keep their names conspicuous...
...Yankees. He also has a fresh-air affair with Kate, an enemy's wife. But though the sergeant vomits at the sight of a whipping or of blood glistening on a bayonet, he spares his readers a like reaction. Romantic neither in the Wordsworth-Shelley nor the Zanuck-Selznick sense, Lamb's tale is stanch and hearty...