Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think anyone who hasn't a business head," generalized Broadway Producer Irene Selznick (A Streetcar Named Desire), "should go into business...
...Tennessee Williams the leading contender for the title of the nation's most gifted young playwright. The choice also heaped honors on much-honored Director Elia Kazan (recently Oscared by Hollywood for directing Gentleman's Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick, had at last made a success...
Muses Irene: "L.B. thought that a woman's place was in the home. I almost never got out except with the family." When she was 19, she got out long enough to meet a bright young studio executive named Dave Selznick at a New Year's party. Three years later they were married...
...Blandings Builds His Dream House (Selznick; RKO Radio), like the original bestseller by FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins, is a sort of rich man's Egg and I: a comedy natural for all big city dwellers who have ever tried to get back to the land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans...
...normal course of Hollywood events, Cinemagnate David O. Selznick was rumored to have set the rent on his latest import, Italian Cinemactress Alida Valli. For one picture...