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From producer David O. Selznick's overall conception to the small details of costume and set decoration, Gone With the Wind has an innate grace, an elegance and dignity that has disappeared from movie-making. Even the rapid succession of disasters in the final 20 minutes--Scarlett's miscarriage, her daughter's fatal accident, Rhett's madness and Melanie's death--gains complete plausibility from the nuances of performnace and the stylistic subtlety of direction...
Once again, filmgoers have the chance to rereview two such fabled Hollywood performances: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Since its gala 1939 premiere in Atlanta, G.W.T.W. has been seen by more than 295 million people and earned $75 million in rentals for MGM. This month MGM re-released it for the fifth time, and already has advance bookings (at an average of $3 per reserved-seat ticket) totaling...
Died. Vivien Leigh, 53, brilliantly versatile actress; after a long siege of tuberculosis; in London. A fragile (5 ft. 3 in., 100 Ibs.) British beauty, she spun to international fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent...
...Industry Needs You." Jennifer Jones, an Oscar winner for her role in Song of Bernadette, was a young actress that Selznick found. He starred her in Since You Went Away, Duel in the Sun and Portrait of Jenny. In 1948 Selznick divorced Irene Mayer, in 1949 married Jennifer. After the marriage, Selznick virtually retired from film making, produced only one more picture-Farewell to Arms (1958) with Jennifer Jones. But semiretirement did little to modify his compulsive ways. For Farewell, he wore out three secretaries while dictating a total of 10,000 memos, ranging from single sentences...
Died. David O. Selznick, 63, producer of some of Hollywood's best movies; of a heart attack; in Hollywood (see SHOW BUSINESS...