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...Rivers proclaimed a Statewide holiday, prepared to call out the National Guard. Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield proclaimed a three-day festival. To Georgia it was like winning the battle of Atlanta 75 years late, with Yankee good will thrown in and the direct assistance of Selznick International (which made the picture...
...takes the things of this world to make even a religious picture. From his father, James Friedrich inherited about $200,000. In Hollywood he got himself a job as an assistant rector, rented two rooms at Selznick International Studios and hung out a sign reading: Cathedral Films. Author Dana Burnet supplied a script with plenty of entertainment value and with preaching carefully soft-pedaled. Once Friedrich met hard-bitten James Thompson Coyle, veteran Hollywood Jack-of-all-trades, and sold him on the idea that a religious picture could make money, Cathedral Films was ready to produce The Great Commandment...
Intermezzo (Selznick-lnternational) is a pleasant, leisurely filming of an off-key love episode in the life of a middle-aged man with a middle-aging wife (Edna Best). In Hollywood's current concern with musicians, it plays a thin, modest, molto andante treble to such thumping pictures as They Shall Have Music (Jascha Heifetz), The Star Maker (Walter Dam-rosch). Rare top notes are contributed by Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's leading cinemactress, whose grave good looks, lit by a big-mouthed smile, make her one of the most promising Scandinavian exports since Garbo...
From his father, fabulous Movie Pioneer Lewis J. ("L. J.") Selznick, who gave him a schoolboy allowance of $1,000 a week, Myron inherited a contempt for small sums of money ("peanuts" to Myron is anything under $5,000 a week), a feud with most of Father Selznick's contemporaries which is supposed to contribute to his professional zeal...
Like all dangerously powerful Hollywood figures, Myron Selznick is often rumored to be "slipping." In the ups-&-downs of the agency business, Agent Selznick has faced stiffer competition since his valuable partner Frank Joyce died two years ago and since Leland Hayward, Margaret Sullavan's husband, pulled out of the Selznick partnership. Last year Hollywood gasped when 20th Century-Fox's President Joseph M. Schenck, exasperated with Selznick's demands for Loretta Young, ordered him off the Fox lot. So far, the only person who has caught Myron Selznick napping is his friend and client, Carole Lombard...