Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Irene Selznick) goes off the track now & then-which is a small price to pay for its staying off the beaten track entirely. It is a fresh, vivid drama, revealing that the author of The Glass Menagerie is not only much more of a poet than most of his fellow playwrights, but much more of a realist as well...
...chain's uneven movie production was just an appendix to its operation of some 125 theatres. RKS's setup was to make a few pictures, hire others from independent producers. It was on such a lease arrangement that RKO took over Schary in 1946 from David O. Selznick. The first four pictures he made for RKO (Spiral Staircase, Till the End of Time, The Farmer's Daughter and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) helped lift RKO's 1946 net income to $12 million, more than double the previous year...
...Artists, got together in a movie cutting room and made peace. U.A.'s income-largely because of their feuding-had reportedly slumped to $192,000 last year. They compromised on a new president, Gradwell L. Sears, who has been U.A.'s vice president since 1941. David 0. Selznick, who had been in at the start of the feud (TIME, Dec. 23), had sold out his U.A. share...
Hollywood benignly agreed that Playwright McGiver was ready for some graduate work. Cinemogul David O. Selznick sent him the script of the forthcoming Portrait of Jenny, asked if McGiver would please, for good Hollywood money, just touch up the Irish dialogue...
...West Coast, a few summer theaters seem to be catching on with a slightly different hold. One example is the Selznick Actors' Company (operated by Dorothy McGuire, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Melchor Ferrer, Gregory Peck), which will present a play a week for six weeks. Explains Cinemactor Peck: "The Old Vic and Olivier have made us Hollywood actors very unhappy with our swimming pools...