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Only major effort of the cinema industry's craftsmen to grab the profits of their own pictures was United Artists, which, formed in 1919, long since passed out of their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system...
...Myron Selznick's brother, Producer David Selznick, last fortnight made news by hiring his onetime boss at Paramount, Benjamin P. Schulberg, as an assistant at Selznick International. Both Selznicks are sons of the late, famed Lewis J. Selznick ("Selznick Pictures Make Happy Hours"), kingpin of the industry during and just after the War, whose major worries, before he failed in 1923, were: 1) how to get stars like Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas and Owen Moore to act for as little as possible; and 2) how to teach the business to his sons, who used to do odd jobs...
...with Ideas. Producers' ideas are mostly about money. Top producers in Hollywood currently are Twentieth Century-Fox's small, dynamic Darryl Zanuck, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's aging, pompous Louis B. Mayer, Warner Brothers' Harry Wrarner and Hal Wallis, Jock Whitney's placid David Oliver Selznick, United Artists' socially conscious Walter Wanger and legendary Sam Goldwyn. Producers may be onetime writers, theatre owners, book peddlers or glove salesmen. Their pay runs from $1,000 weekly...
...Viennese Henry Koster, imported by Universal two years ago, to whom Deanna Durbin and Danielle Darrieux owe a large part of their current popularity. For urbane, continental sophistication, he is outclassed by Ernst Lubitsch, who last week announced that he would henceforth produce his own pictures, backed by Myron Selznick, Producer David Selznick's agent brother...
Last week, in Hollywood, Producer Selznick finally revealed his plans for Gone With the Wind: production starting this winter; release through M-G-M about Sept. 1, 1939; cost about $1,500,000; Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara to be played by Clark Gable and Norma Shearer...