Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the present arrangement, all the major studios obtain their extras through Central Casting Corporation, a nonprofit, cooperative employment agency run by the Association of Motion Picture Producers. There almost 10,000 extras are registered, known by their age, sex, length of beard, type of wardrobe. When David Selznick needs a few thousand Confederate soldiers, his casting department sends an order to Central by teletype. It is given to one of the six casters who sit in a large noisy room listening to the names of the extras broadcast over a loudspeaker as they call in for work...
Last week, to a chorus of backslaps and compliments, Selznick International formally announced its dissolution. After a weekend together at Whitney's Saratoga estate, Whitney and Selznick released to the press the S-I epitaph. "It is with profound regret," they said, "that we feel that the risks involved, due to world conditions, made it desirable for us to take this step...
More important to both was the condition in which they left their joint enterprise. The domestic grosses of GWTW ($14,000,000 to date), Rebecca ($1,800,000), other recent Selznick successes made it possible to retire $2,900,000 of debentures, 30% of which constituted Whitney's S-I investment. Company assets above & beyond were to be parceled among the common stockholders, who get their first dividend ($1,500,000) this week. Biggest stockholder was David...
...Selznick International still owed its distributor, United Artists, two pictures. These will be produced by Selznick's new company, David O. Selznick Productions, Inc., 100% Selznick-owned. The new company will assume the contracts of such Selznick breadwinners as Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, Ingrid (Intermezzo) Bergman, Joan (Rebecca) Fontaine, dumpy Director Alfred Hitchcock...
...While Selznick paced his office explaining the situation to reporters, he took nervous peeks at a gold wrist watch by which he futilely tries to be prompt. The watch, received shortly after the release of GWTW, bears the inscription in Whitney's handwriting: "David-Xmas, 1939. Praise de Lawd. Jock...