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...David O. Selznick paid $1,200,000 for a United Artists partnership with Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Alexander Korda, promised to make $20,000,000 worth of pictures, got a kiss from Mary. Ruth Etting's husband, Myrl Alderman, dropped his $225,000 damage suit against her ex-husband, Martin Snyder, who shot him four years ago. Billy Rose sued the Canadian National Exhibition for $500,000 for calling its summer water show an "Aquacade." Richard Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was sued for $50,000 by a woman who said she spent more than a year typing and researching...
...David Selznick did not "pant." He was sincerely thrilled at his award...
...Republics, headed by Nelson Rockefeller. Looking to the cinema as a potent field for propaganda Rockefeller established a Motion Picture Division. Wise choice to handle this division was hard-working Jock Whitney who has made his Long Island fortune speak Hollywood s language in two profitable ventures-Technicolor and Selznick International. In Hollywood it is chic to know Jock, who plays six-goal polo and owns a racing stable, a privilege to do business with...
...Bette Davis. They alcoholically splurged for a couple of hours as the lesser Academy Awards were doled out, pulled themselves together at last as John Ford (the only directorial nominee not present) got his Oscar for the year's best direction (The Grapes of Wrath). Then panting David Selznick got one for the best production (Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall Be No Night, rose to hand the Oscar for character to Jane Darwell (for Ma Joad, in The Grapes), the noblest Oscar of them all (for Kitty...
...Selznick's production in color abounds...