Word: selznicks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cinema star's face is her fortune, and her agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack...
...Actress Young had been refused permission to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind for Myron Selznick's producer brother, David. Reason: Whoever plays Scarlett O'Hara will get higher billing. Wags said it was just as well, that at the rate Gone With the Wind was progressing Actress Young would be old and grey before the cameras started turning...
...Selznick International) is a slick-dandy, too-well-tailored dressing up of Mark Twain's homespun yarn. Its Hollywood pretty-prettiness needs more than anything else to have its face & hands rubbed in good Mississippi mud. But neither time, Technicolor nor cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted...
...Wife Elizabeth McDuffie, longtime Roosevelt cook, was three weeks ago hired by publicity-wise Selznick International Pictures to act in their forthcoming Gone With The Wind...
...fills the king's shoes during the coronation period. Ruler for a day, he has the misfortune to fall in love with the king's betrothed, lovely Madeleine Carroll. That in the end they have to part does something to one's faith in Cupid or David O. Selznick, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, turns in a superb performance as the delightfully unscrupulous Rupert of Hentzau. Though Mr. Colman has might and right on his side, he looks a little wan when he has to share a scene with Mr. Fairbanks...