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...picture was $2,000,000 net. I was paid $19,000 by RKO for writing Scarf ace, which made between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 net for the studio. Sam Goldwyn paid me $50,000 for Wuthering Heights, and all Sam made was a million. David Selznick, the finest boss I had in Hollywood, paid me $75,000for Spellbound, and his net profit was about $3,000,000. I wrote Notorious for RKO and the studio paid me $75,000, which was peanuts compared with the $4,000,000 profit on the film...
Born. To Jennifer Jones (real name: Phyllis Isley), 35, doe-eyed, Oscar-winning (The Song of Bernadette) cinemactress, and David O. Selznick, 52, Hollywood producer (most famed for Gone With the Wind), her second husband (No. 1: the late Cinemactor Robert Walker): their first child (his third, her third), a daughter. Weight...
Originally titled Terminal Station, Indiscretion began discreetly as a combined effort of Italy's De Sica-it was his first English-language movie-and Hollywood's David O. {Gone With the Wind} Selznick, husband of Jennifer Jones. Selznick supplied the stars, script and money, De Sica the unblinking eye for "neo-realism." But the effort never moved very smoothly: De Sica, who likes to use nonprofessionals in his films and speaks poor English, frequently found his American stars hard to deal with. The original Italian script was worked over successively by American Authors Carson McCullers, Paul...
...John Chapman, 53, successor to the late Burns Mantle, who writes for the biggest newspaper circulation in the U.S. (2,109,601 ); the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr, 40. who directs and writes plays himself. The Times's review, says Producer (A Streetcar Named Desire) Irene Selznick, is the "most important because the Times isn't trying to reach any audience. The Times doesn't give a damn. It's just there...
...much flip-flop stuff going on up in Washington." ¶Four big names in he world of arts and letters announced in New York that they were switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. The four: Producer-Playwright George Abbott, Author Edna Ferber, Librettist-Producer Oscar Hammerstein II, Producer Irene Selznick. Two big Southern newspapers announced their choice. The Atlanta Journal, the South's largest daily (which has never supported a Republican for President), came out for Stevenson. The Charlotte News, largest evening paper in the Carolinas (which supported Tom Dewey in 1948), announced for Ike. In Baltimore, the Afro-American...