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Last week. Trader Selznick rode into the master's list with a bang. He announced that he had coupled his talents, audience prestige and star power (Hollywood's second best) with the distribution outlets and capital of Britain's movie king, tall, pious Joseph Arthur Rank. It was a deal that every major Hollywood studio had hoped to turn. Selznick made it during Rank's recent Hollywood visit (TIME...
...Selznick and Rank had formed a new company-Selznick International Pictures of England, Ltd. It was to be financed 100% by Rank (as board chairman), and run by Selznick (as executive producer). Under the contract, voting powers would be equal. In 1946 they would make three pictures abroad. The first would be a $5 million special called "Mary Magdalene," starring Selznick-owned Joseph Gotten and Ingrid Bergman...
...many another Hollywood bigwig, the deal with Rank would have seemed enough of an accomplishment. But not for David Selznick, 43, who was reared in the movie business (his father headed Selznick Pictures during the last war) and had come up fast. Last week there was ample evidence that the man who had become rich and famous on Gone With the Wind was trying to move in on RKO, Hollywood's fifth largest moviemaker.* One day Selznick personnel took over the entire top floor of one RKO building. Forthwith, production was stopped cold on three RKO productions to make...
Next day, the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, spearheaded by militantly independent David 0. Selznick. took Yorkshireman Rank back to Perino's for more chicken. Nothing came of it. That night Sam Goldwyn entertained at a dinner featuring Myrna Loy, Gary Grant and Joan Bennett. They found Mr. Rank charming...
...Hollywood itself, Comedian Fatty Arbuckle was being tried for the death of an actress following a pajamaed "orgy." There, too, a small group of men who knew less about show business than fur dealing (Marcus Loew), jewelry merchandizing (Lewis J. Selznick), glove selling (Samuel Goldwyn), cloth sponging (William Fox), railroad engineering (Sam Warner), were struggling among hundreds of others "from Saturday night to Saturday night" in an atmosphere of "ruthless conflict, chicane, daring, and genius...