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Wells called it "a brilliantly successful attempt to put real news into the newsreel"- David Selznick recognized it as "the most significant development since the invention of sound"-and just two years later MARCH OF TIME won Hollywood's coveted "Oscar" for "revolutionizing the newsreel." The MARCH OF TIME has been developing constantly since those early films, and today it requires a staff of close to 100 specially-trained technicians. Head man is Producer Richard de Rochemont, who headed its operations in Europe for nine years and covered the early battles of the war firsthand for TIME & LIFE...
...offered as high as $1,000,000 for the screen rights. Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall and Greta Garbo have all tried to persuade their bosses to buy it for them. (In the play, as first written, Anna and her family were Polish.) Among the top bidders are David Selznick and Mervyn LeRoy. Yet Yordan refuses to sell Anna Lucasta at any price unless he is allowed to co-produce the picture...
Founded on a ridiculous misconception of justice, produced by Selznick International with unfailing sentimentality, and ludicrously miscast in attempt to use available star talent, "I'll Be Seeing You" is an imposing monument to the maudlin tastes and perverted emotions of Hollywood's film-makers...
...Seeing You" strikes out boldly not for the deep human feelings for which it could have been aimed, but instead for the grossest and most infantile of audience tastes. It fails where other movies have filed and will continue to fall under the hands of such as Mr. Selznick...
Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, who returned to her native England in 1941, went to court with charges that Hollywood Producer David Selznick was attempting to prevent her appearing in a London stage play with her cinematinee-idol husband, Laurence Olivier. Selznick likened Miss Leigh to an "exotic plant" which must be wisely exposed, said that her seven-year contract with him still had a year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that...