Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last five years, bushy, bespectacled Showman David Oliver Selznick and bland, bespectacled Socialite John Hay ("Jock") Whitney have been partners. Their firm: Selznick International Pictures, Inc. When Whitney invaded an industry long monopolized by a small clique of specialists, Hollywood veterans smirked, knowingly predicted he would singe his finger tips. But Whitney stuck to his desk as SI's chairman, this year laughed last as S-I brought out two of the season's most profitable films-Gone With the Wind and Rebecca...
...dismayed by a Rugby whose youthful masculinity is as unembellished as an old sneaker, even they will find homely, button-nosed Jimmy Lydon an improvement over the standard Hollywood juvenile. A veteran of WPA drama and radio serials, he was ousted in the finals of Producer David Selznick's hunt for a Tom Sawyer. He and Freddie Bartholomew raced to work in their cars every morning until Lydon bowled over an R. K. O. watchman and Producer Towne threatened to put them both off the lot. At 17, Cinemactor Lydon believes that he will be washed up in five...
Asked at a Rochester University round table whether he thought the motion picture industry would eventually stop foisting "trash" on the public, Producer David Selznick (Gone With the Wind) replied: "If we don't give it to them, radio . . . will...
...originality of his usual ad-lib burlesque. Ilka Chase, also prominent in the comedy sequences, carries off one of the show's funniest scenes with Durante and Bolger in "Rhett, Scarlett, and Ashley." Typical crack out of the mouth of academy award winner, "Scarlett O'Leigh" is: "Mr. Selznick made me--he made me over night...
...cast her in The Women, where she made her first strike. Later Selznick tested her for Rebecca. Much to everybody's surprise, he gave her the handsome part...