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...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...
Flossy's skillful board has guided her up the ladder from movie-magazine interviews ("with male stars only") to feature writing on Hearst's New York Journal-American to a publicity stint for Duel in the Sun (Selznick dubbed her "The Personality"), finally to radio...
Quick Shooting. One man notably tuned to the trend was RKO's new production boss, 41-year-old Dore Senary, up from writing ranks and a stint as producer for Selznick. Despite all the worry over high costs, he had demonstrated that pictures could still be made cheaply. His newest picture. Crossfire, was produced in only 24 shooting days at a cost of only...