Word: selznicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Selznick Releasing Organization had turned down a chance to book the British-made The Fallen Idol into Manhattan's 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, instead waited patiently to put it into the 550-seat Sutton theater, where the British-made Quartet was in its 28th week...
...first-night audience looked like a Hollywood première. But behind the elaborate façade was the solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help get it started in 1947. Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire and Joseph Gotten, as directors of the Playhouse, have also pitched...
...Jolla pays its top stars an Equity minimum wage (lesser names get their regular price), sticks to a modest budget and limits itself to one set per production. But sometimes Hollywood will out. When Jennifer Jones starred last season in Serena Blandish, Angel Selznick insisted on surrounding his favorite actress (later to become his wife) with a cast that included Cinemactor Louis Jourdan and such polished stage veterans as Constance Collier, Mildred Natwick and Reginald Owen. He also insisted on gowns by Jacques Fath and five sets. The show drew capacity crowds throughout its run-and lost several thousand dollars...
When the current nine-week season opened in July (with Mildred Natwick, John Emery and Tamara Geva in Blithe Spirit), the Playhouse still owed $9,500 on the Selznick loan, but had rolled up an advance ticket sale...
Married. David 0. Selznick, 47, cinemagnate (Gone With the Wind, Duel in the Sun); and Jennifer Jones, 30, cinemactress (The Song of Bernadette) ; each for the second time; in Genoa. The marriage, solemnized in the midst of preparations for Jennifer's new European-made film, Gone to Earth, was scripted by Selznick himself. After some rumors that the wedding had been performed at sea, the couple foxed reporters by slipping off to Genoa's city hall. Fadeout: a moonlit honeymoon on the French Riviera aboard the Manona, a 33-ton chartered yacht...