Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 18 years of marriage (three of separation), Broadway Producer Irene Mayer Selznick (A Streetcar Named Desire) got her final decree from Cinemagnate David O. He was now free to marry Cinemactress Jennifer Jones, who used to be married to Cinemactor Robert Walker...
...David O. Selznick, who shares Mitchum's contract with RKO, called on the American people for "fair play": ".. . We urgently request the press, the industry and the public to withhold . . . judgment until [the] facts are known...
...sleazier dives and nightclubs for not-so-fresh material ("Paris is not the same since they closed The Sphinx,"* he says). Recently returned from a tour of Vienna lowlife, he is at work on a new thriller and a movie script (The Third Man) for Producers David O. Selznick and Sir Alexander Korda. His slumming adventures are received by his family with mixed feelings. His white-haired old mother very naturally writes them off as nonexistent, says firmly of the use to which her son puts his escapades: "Graham must imagine it." But his aunt looks the other...
...acted on Broadway, then switched to writing. After six years as a Hollywood scripter, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) won an Oscar for his work on Boys Town (1938). He moved forward fast-right into a producer's office, first with MGM, later with David Selznick...
Schary kept mum about his plans, and refused to verify any rumors (that he might go to Goldwyn, Columbia or back to Selznick). The people he left behind at RKO were not taking it so calmly. In a business where many of the bosses learned about movies in banks or haberdasheries, there was a special fondness for a producer who had worked his way up from a scripter. "It was a great shock," said one admirer. "That man is a writer...